Geothermal play fairway analysis in north-western Argentina

This dataset is a compilation of existing and new publicly-available geoscience data that were used to conduct a geothermal play fairway analysis (PFA) in north-western Argentina in the Jujuy and Salta provinces. The 'Model_Input_Datasets' folder includes the original ArcGIS shapefiles and rasters that were used to build the geological favorability models (attribute models) for heat, permeability and fluid. Detailed metadata for each dataset (e.g. provenance; use constraints etc.) can be viewed for each file in ArcCatalog. The 'Area_One' shapefile represents the study area boundary that was used to define the processing extent for the PFA models. The favorability models were built using the ModelBuilder tool in ESRI ArcGIS (this model was run using ESRI ArcMap version 10.7.1). The 'Python_Scripts' folder includes python scripts for building each of the three attribute models (heat, permeability, fluid) and the total combined geothermal favorability model using either the sum (voter) or product (veto) methods. The 'ProcessingNotes_for_PFA_model_development.v2' file (.xlsx or .pdf format) includes a description of the various steps used to weight individual data attribute fields, data layers themselves, and overall model development. This file complements the python scripts. This dataset accompanies a paper submitted to Geothermics by Lindsey et al., 2021, 'Geothermal play fairway analysis in north-western Argentina'.