Geothermal Data for Dominica

GEOTHERMAL ANOMALIES OF DOMINICA

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Temperature measurements of hot springs on Dominica

Unpublished data of Smith and Kirkley (2004) Department of Geological Sciences, California State University, San Bernardino, California, USA 92407

	Name	Center	Latitude (N)	Longitude (W)	Date	Temperature
1	Penville cold soufriere, *	Morne aux Diables	15˚37’9.7″	61˚26’23.6″	02/11/04	27˚
2	Hot water (now covered), Toucari	Morne aux Diables	15˚36’39.2″	62˚27’52.0″	06/25/03	ND
3	Submarine hot spring, Prince Rupert Bay, (known locally as Longhouse Vent off government jetty)	Morne aux Diables	15˚33’46.6″	61˚27’53.0″	02/09/04	ND
4	Submarine hot spring area, Prince Rupert Bay	Morne aux Diables	15˚33’46.0″-15˚33’20.9″	61˚27’48.0″-61˚27’53.2″	02/09/04	ND
5	Gloshow spring	Morne aux Diables	15˚33’42.4″	61˚27’04.2″	06/25/03	48˚
6	Hot spring, near mouth of Picard River	Morne aux Diables	15˚33’39.8″	61˚27’32.8″	02/09/04	101˚
7	Balvin hot spring	Morne aux Diables	15˚33’28.1″	61˚27’06.2″	02/06/04 06/25/03	94.1˚ 88˚
8	Area of hot ground that forms conspicuous steam cloud after rainfall	Morne aux Diables	15˚33’23.0″	61˚27’15.8″	Seen on 02/09/04	ND
9	Submarine hot spring, Prince Rupert Bay (known locally as Black Coral Vent off Coconut Beach hotel)	Morne aux Diables	15˚33’10.9″	61˚28’07.8″	02/09/04	ND
10	Manies sulfur spring	Morne aux Diables	15˚33’04.1″	61˚27’19.4″	06/25/03	56˚ (in excavated pool)
11	Submarine hot spring, off Morne Espaniol	Morne aux Diables				ND
12	Springfield warm spring		15˚26’06.6″	61˚26’17.2″		ND
13	Warm spring Layou River	Morne Trois Pitons	15˚20’49.0″	61˚21’56.9″	02/11/04	28˚
14	Trafalgar hot springs	Wotten Waven	Approximately 15˚19’37.2“	Approximately 61˚20’12.7″		ND
15	Small geyser*	Wotten Waven	15˚19’11.0″	61˚20’29.2″	02/14/04 06/22/03	88˚ 80˚
16	Hot Pool*	Wotten Waven	15˚19’11.0″	61˚20’29.2″	6/22/03	70˚
17	Hot ground (20cm depth)	Wotten Waven	15˚19’11.0″	61˚20’29.2″	02/14/04 06/22/03	102˚ 102˚
18	Bamboo Shower*	Wotten Waven	15˚19’06.7″	61˚20’25.8″	6/22/03	(cold) 27˚ (hot) 45˚
19	Geyser in small cave, River Blanc	Wotten Waven	15˚19’06.3″	61˚20’21.3″	02/08/04 02/02/04 06/22/03	93˚ 91.2˚ 86˚
20	Ti Kwen GloCho	Wotten Waven	15˚18’56.8″	61˚20’12.0″		ND
21	Upper Eastern Hot Spring	Valley of Desolation	15˚19’7.4″	61˚17’48.7″	See Lindsay et al., 2004
22	Boiling Lake	Valley of Desolation	15˚19’7.2″	61˚17’41.0″	See Lindsay et al., 2004
23	Lower Eastern Hot Spring	Valley of Desolation	15˚18’57.8″	61˚17’43.5″	See Lindsay et al., 2004
24	Bubbling Pool 1	Valley of Desolation	15˚18’51.8″	61˚18’4.5″	See Lindsay et al., 2004
25	Bubbling Pool 2	Valley of Desolation	15˚18’49.2″	61˚17’5.2″	See Lindsay et al., 2004
26	Champagne Pool*	Plat Pays	15˚14’41.9″	61˚22’22.8″	02/04/04	73.8˚
27	Museum Pool, Sulfur Springs*	Plat Pays	15˚18’06.9″	61˚20’59.5″	02/13/04 06/19/03	34˚ 31˚
28	Upper Sulfur Springs, bubbling pool*	Plat Pays	15˚14’35.3″	61˚20’50.9″	02/13/04 06/19/03	106˚ 101˚
29	Upper Sulfur Springs, fumerole	Plat Pays	15˚14’35.3″	61˚20’50.9″	02/13/04 06/19/03	106˚ 106˚
30	Soufriere Shore, in front of church	Plat Pays	15˚13’58.8″	61˚21’42.9″	02/08/04	65˚
31	Galion, hot ground	Plat Pays	15˚13’26.0″	61˚21’31.0	See Lindsay et al., 2004
32	Galion, fumerole*	Plat Pays	15˚13’11.4″	61˚21’20.7″	06/23/03	105˚

*See also Lindsay et al., 2004 for additional data (Lindsay, J.M., Smith, A.L., Roobol, M.J., and Stasiuk, M.V., 2004, Dominica: Volcanic Hazard Atlas of the Lesser Antilles, in press).

ND No data

Latitude and Longitude from GPS measurements except those in italics which are from topographic map.