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Title: Surface-discharging hydrothermal systems at Yucca Mountain: Examining the evidence

Abstract

This paper discusses exposures of altered rock that have been thought to form by recent discharge of water from depth. They were examined to address a concern that hydrothermal processes could compromise the isolation capability of a potential high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. Suspected hot-spring and hydrothermal-vent deposits are more likely the products of infiltration of meteoric water into newly deposited and still-hot pyroclastic flows >12 Myr ago.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
138645
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-92-3549; CONF-921101-6
ON: DE93003790; TRN: 93:004868
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-36
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: 16. Materials Research Society (MRS) fall meeting, Boston, MA (United States), 30 Nov - 5 Dec 1992; Other Information: PBD: [1992]
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
05 NUCLEAR FUELS; 15 GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; YUCCA MOUNTAIN; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEMS; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL; TUFF; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; SEISMOLOGY; SILICON OXIDES; Yucca Mountain Project; Geothermal Legacy

Citation Formats

Levy, S S. Surface-discharging hydrothermal systems at Yucca Mountain: Examining the evidence. United States: N. p., 1992. Web.
Levy, S S. Surface-discharging hydrothermal systems at Yucca Mountain: Examining the evidence. United States.
Levy, S S. 1992. "Surface-discharging hydrothermal systems at Yucca Mountain: Examining the evidence". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/138645.
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year = {Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1992},
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