The impact of recent geodynamics on the safe utilisation of deep underground space in Poland - a pilot project
Project start date: 01.2021
Profect end date: 03.2023
Founding: National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management (NFOŚiGW)
The level of exploitation of the deep subsurface for industrial and environmental purposes increases with advancing technology. There is also need for much more precise control of the geomechanics and geodynamic state of the upper crust to allow the extraction of mineral resources at greater depth.
The pilot stage of this project consists of the literature-based characterization of methods of quantifying modern geodynamic activity, inventory of the State Treasury and industrial resources that can be useful in the analysis of the contemporary stresses and strains in the Earth’s crust, as well as recognition of the mechanical properties and tectonic structures from the wellbore data. Computer codes will be developed to analyze stress directions and magnitudes from borehole data and strains from satellite geodesy data. Test analyses of data will be performed. The framework of geodynamic databases and computer applications for interpretation of the geodynamic parameters will be prepared. We select the region of Sudetes Mountains in SW Poland as our test site for geodynamic activity studies.
Results of this pilot project are meant to be a starting point for designing a long-term investigation aimed at gathering data pools which will allow private investors as well as public administration for accurate predictions of the impact of subsurface activities and for interdisciplinary synthesis of the modern geodynamic activity in Poland.