Home – Home – Jornals – Geography and Natural Resources 2022 number 3

With an increase in energy consumption, more and more attention is being paid to nontraditional energy, including natural resources of thermal springs. Along with the problems of using thermal waters, their search is an important task. The experience of analyzing maps of plastic relief for the detection of thermal springs, obtained by using the example of the south of Kamchatka, is presented. Linear and ring-shaped zones of tension of the Earth’s crust were identified according to the maps of the relief plasticity. Of particular interest are the intersections of linear and ring structures. There arise zones of increased fracturing of rocks, within which active and extinct volcanoes and thermal springs are located. A map of promising sites is presented, the development of which in the near future will make it possible to solve the problems of energy consumption in an environmentally safe way, expand the geography of tourism and spa balneology. This will give an impetus to the development of the entire region as a whole. The experience of analyzing relief plastic maps in order to detect thermal springs can be applied throughout Russia in the future, including when searching for ore deposits.