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Table 2 Geological units (C: Cenozoic, M: Muschelkalk, BS: Buntsandstein, Z: Zechstein, R: Rotliegend, B: Basement) of the structural model (Arndt 2012), with aquifer and aquitard characterization following the parameterization in Koltzer et al. (2019a)

From: How temperatures derived from fluid flow and heat transport models impact predictions of deep geothermal potentials: the “heat in place” method applied to Hesse (Germany)

Unit

Aquifer/aquitard

d [m]

t [m]

\({T}_{\text{r}}\) conductive model [\(^\circ\)C]

\({T}_{\text{r}}\) advective model [\(^\circ\)C]

\({T}_{\text{r}}\) convective model [\(^\circ\)C]

Min

Max

Min

Max

Min

Max

Min

Max

Min

Max

C

Aquifer

0

1709

0

3418

5

86

5

125

5

94

M

Aquitard

0

200

0

400

5

35

5

17

5

17

BS

Aquifer

0

3465

0

1472

5

163

5

166

5

110

Z

Aquitard

0

1800

0

977

5

53

5

40

5

40

R

Aquifer

0

3637

0

2107

5

150

5

144

5

103

B

Aquitard

3034

5262

1653

6830

82

207

63

203

69

180

  1. Maps with spatial distribution of the middle depth (d) is shown in Additional file 1 of this paper and thickness (t) maps are published in Supplementary Material S1 of Koltzer et al. (2019a)