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Larderello Larderello Travale Travale Geothermal Geothermal area area

Fluid Fluid-

• flow

flow in the in the Boccheggiano Boccheggiano-

• Montieri

Montieri palaeogeothermal palaeogeothermal system: system: insights insights for for the the Larderello Larderello-

• Travale

Travale field field

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• D. Liotta

Liotta, , A.

• A. Brogi

Brogi, , G.

• G. Ruggieri

Ruggieri, P. , P. Fulignati Fulignati & A. & A. Dini Dini

• Mt. Amiata
• Mt. Amiata

Geothermal Geothermal area area

Boccheggiano Fault Boccheggiano Fault

Boccheggiano Fault Boccheggiano Fault Traces Traces of

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geological geological sections sections

Footwall Hangingwall Mineralised fault rocks

Main Fault plane

Boccheggiano Fault Boccheggiano Fault

erosion since 3.6 Ma meteoric water deep fluids m ine area granodiorite: 2 .2 Ma

INCREASING TEMPERATURE METEORIC WATER CONTENT

Palaeozoic phyllites Ligurian Unit mineralized cataclasite Tuscan Nappe carbonate tectonic breccias

meteoric water

carbonate succession

evaporiti a

Unità Liguri e Sub- liguri

Cataclasites w ithin the Tuscan Nappe

Pelagic-turbiditic succession