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** [[Frog (Garrett Ranch) Springs]]
** [[Frog (Garrett Ranch) Springs]]
**[[Gerlach "Great Boiling" Springs]]
**[[Gerlach "Great Boiling" Springs]]
** [[McFarland Hot Springs]]
** [[Macfarlanes Bath House Spring]]
** [[Pinto Hot Springs]]
** [[Pinto Hot Springs]]
** [[Trego]]
** [[Trego]]
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* http://www.greatsoaks.com/nevada.html
* http://www.greatsoaks.com/nevada.html
* Matt C. Bischoff, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=0tF7-l903RYC&pg=PA156 California and Nevada Hot Springs]."
* Matt C. Bischoff, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=0tF7-l903RYC&pg=PA156 California and Nevada Hot Springs]."
* L.J Garside and J.H. Schilling. 1979. "[http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/dox/b91/index.html Thermal waters of Nevada]." Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin 91. 1979
* L.J Garside and J.H. Schilling. 1979. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20141028190920/http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/dox/b91/index.html Thermal waters of Nevada]." Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin 91. 1979
* J.P. Anderson, "[http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=6531959 Geothermal study of the southwest part of the Black Rock Desert and its geothermal areas; Washoe, Pershing, and Humboldt Counties, Nevada]," Q. Colo. Sch. Mines, July 1, 1978.
* J.P. Anderson, "[http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=6531959 Geothermal study of the southwest part of the Black Rock Desert and its geothermal areas; Washoe, Pershing, and Humboldt Counties, Nevada]," Q. Colo. Sch. Mines, July 1, 1978.
** Abstract: "Several hydrothermal systems were explored in northwestern Nevada in parts of Washoe, Pershing, and Humboldt Counties. These hydrothermal systems included the [[Gerlach "Great Boiling" Springs | Great Boiling springs and Mud springs at Gerlach]], the [[Fly Ranch | Fly Ranch]] hot springs in [[Hualapai | Hualapai Flat]], [[Double Hot Spring | Double Hot]] and [[Black Rock Hot Spring | Black Rock springs]] at the southern end of the Black Rock Range, [[Trego]] hot spring, [[Soldier Meadow Springs | Soldier Meadows hot springs]], and hot springs at [[Pinto Hot Springs | Pinto Mt.]], at Pyramid Lake Needles region, and in the [[San Emidio Desert | San Emidio]] and [[Smoke Creek Desert | Smoke Creek]] Deserts. Thermal and nonthermal groundwater was analyzed to determine the water quality of the various hot spring regions. Water discharged from the hot springs of Trego, Gerlach, San Emidio and Smoke Creek Deserts, and Pyramid Lake Needles area is classified as Na--Cl. This water is characterized by high values of Na<sup>+</sup>, Cl<sup>-</sup>, HCO<sub>3/</sub> -/, and SiO<sub>2</sub> and is neutral in pH. Water discharged from the hot springs of Soldier Meadows, Pinto Mt., Double Hot springs, and Fly Ranch hot springs is classified as Na--HCO<sub>3</sub>. This water is similar to the nonthermal water of these areas, and probably represents circulation of meteoric water near a heat source, with very little addition of magma-derived fluids. The similarities of the trilinear plots of the chemical quality of nonthermal and thermal waters suggest the origin of the thermal waters is deep circulation of meteoric water with the addition of some connate water. Based on the use of the silica, Na/K, and Na--K--Ca geothermometers, the Great Boiling springs at Gerlach appears to be the most promising geothermal prospect in the study area. The sub-surface temperature calculated for this area was 175 to 200&deg;C. The springs along the eastern edge of the San Emidio Desert have the greatest potential for yielding commercial geothermal fluids based on a geochemical temperature of 216&deg;C. Hualapai Flat (Fly Ranch) contains a large number of hot springs, but temperatures of the reservoir based on geochemistry ranged from 125 to 155&deg;C."
** Abstract: "Several hydrothermal systems were explored in northwestern Nevada in parts of Washoe, Pershing, and Humboldt Counties. These hydrothermal systems included the [[Gerlach "Great Boiling" Springs | Great Boiling springs and Mud springs at Gerlach]], the [[Fly Ranch | Fly Ranch]] hot springs in [[Hualapai | Hualapai Flat]], [[Double Hot Spring | Double Hot]] and [[Black Rock Hot Spring | Black Rock springs]] at the southern end of the Black Rock Range, [[Trego]] hot spring, [[Soldier Meadow Springs | Soldier Meadows hot springs]], and hot springs at [[Pinto Hot Springs | Pinto Mt.]], at Pyramid Lake Needles region, and in the [[San Emidio Desert | San Emidio]] and [[Smoke Creek Desert | Smoke Creek]] Deserts. Thermal and nonthermal groundwater was analyzed to determine the water quality of the various hot spring regions. Water discharged from the hot springs of Trego, Gerlach, San Emidio and Smoke Creek Deserts, and Pyramid Lake Needles area is classified as Na--Cl. This water is characterized by high values of Na<sup>+</sup>, Cl<sup>-</sup>, HCO<sub>3/</sub> -/, and SiO<sub>2</sub> and is neutral in pH. Water discharged from the hot springs of Soldier Meadows, Pinto Mt., Double Hot springs, and Fly Ranch hot springs is classified as Na--HCO<sub>3</sub>. This water is similar to the nonthermal water of these areas, and probably represents circulation of meteoric water near a heat source, with very little addition of magma-derived fluids. The similarities of the trilinear plots of the chemical quality of nonthermal and thermal waters suggest the origin of the thermal waters is deep circulation of meteoric water with the addition of some connate water. Based on the use of the silica, Na/K, and Na--K--Ca geothermometers, the Great Boiling springs at Gerlach appears to be the most promising geothermal prospect in the study area. The sub-surface temperature calculated for this area was 175 to 200&deg;C. The springs along the eastern edge of the San Emidio Desert have the greatest potential for yielding commercial geothermal fluids based on a geochemical temperature of 216&deg;C. Hualapai Flat (Fly Ranch) contains a large number of hot springs, but temperatures of the reservoir based on geochemistry ranged from 125 to 155&deg;C."

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The Black Rock Desert has a number of springs.

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