Prediction of Terrestrial Heat Flow in Songliao Basin Based on Deep
Neural Network
Abstract
Heat flow is a geothermal parameter for indicating the heat sources
distribution and evaluating geothermal reservoirs. Only 1230 heat flow
points are distributed unevenly in China, mainly concentrated in the
high-temperature geothermal areas and the southeast regions. The
Songliao Basin is a potential geothermal field in China. Still, only 20
measurement points are known, making it difficult to evaluate the
geothermal genetic mechanism. Sparse data interpolation using deep
learning methods have high accuracy and are widely used in fields such
as image processing. In this work, we propose a deep neural network for
predicting heat flow in the Songliao Basin. More than 4,000 global heat
flow and 23 geological and geophysical parameters are used as reference
constraints for training. The uncertainty error of the prediction is
estimated based on the correlation and distance-based generalized
sensitivity analysis. The results show that the maximum heat flow is 85
mW/m2, the average is 67.1 mW/m2, and the error with the measured data
is 10.64%. The previous geophysical and geological interpretation
results indicate that the heat flow is higher in the west and lower in
the east, with high anomalies in the central region, which may be
related to the uplift of the deep mantle and the depression of the
shallow low-velocity sedimentary layer. Some high-temperature melt
bodies are in the deep layers, forming the current potential geothermal
field. The measured data validates that the DNN is an effective method
for predicting regional-scale heat flow, providing reliable heat source
information for evaluating geothermal resources.