Geothermal Systems. 11 discharged. Steam reservoir temperatures are consistently around 236°C, the maximum enthalpy of dry steam, pressures are almost constant throughout the reservoir (White, 1970; White et al., 1971) and gas contents within the vapour are around 0.5-2.0%. This compares with ~0.01-0.5% in liquid-dominated systems where the vapour represents 10-30% of the fluid. Temperature (°C) 100 200 300 10% NaCl (1.7m) 400 SY 800 Depth (meters) 1200 1600 Figure 1.3. Boiling-point - depth relationship under hydrostatic conditions. Note that increases in salinity and gas content have opposite effects on the boiling-point - depth profile. For a fluid at a given temperature, increasing the salinity prevents the fluid boiling until shallower depths are attained; by contrast, increasing the gas content permits the fluid to boil at greater depths (see Fig. 3.5 also). Note too that increasing the salinity has only a slight effect on the boiling profile, while relatively small increases in the gas content of the fluid significantly alters the boiling-depth relationship.