Springs

The Black Rock Desert has a number of springs.

See Also

• Hot springs (Category)
  • Black Rock Springs
  • "Coyote Springs"
  • Double Hot Spring
  • Fly Ranch
  • Frog (Garrett Ranch) Springs
  • Gerlach "Great Boiling" Springs
  • McFarland Hot Springs
  • Pinto Hot Springs
  • Trego
• Springs (Category)
  • Rabbit Hole Spring
  • Soldier Meadow Springs

Links

• Gwally's google map of hot springs
• Kathy Pond, "Water recreation and disease. Plausibility of associated infections: Acute effects, sequelae and mortality," World Health Organization Report.
• Health Benefits of Hot Springs
• Soak.Net Forum - Black Rock Desert 2007 (Dead link as of November, 2013)
• http://www.greatsoaks.com/nevada.html
• Matt C. Bischoff, "California and Nevada Hot Springs."
• L.J Garside and J.H. Schilling. 1979. "Thermal waters of Nevada." Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin 91. 1979
• J.P. Anderson, "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 Great Boiling springs and Mud springs at Gerlach, the Fly Ranch hot springs in Hualapai Flat, Double Hot and Black Rock springs at the southern end of the Black Rock Range, Trego hot spring, Soldier Meadows hot springs, and hot springs at Pinto Mt., at Pyramid Lake Needles region, and in the San Emidio and 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⁺, Cl^-, HCO_3/ -/, and SiO₂ 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--HCO₃. 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°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°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°C."