The origin and history of alteration and carbonatization of the Yucca Mountain ignimbrites. Volume I
Abstract
This document contains Volume I of the report entitled The Origin and History of Alteration and Carbonatization of the Yucca Mountain Ignimbrites by Jerry S. Szymanski and a related correspondence with comments by Donald E. Livingston. In the Great Basin, the flow of terrestrial heat through the crust is affected in part by the flow of fluids. At Yucca Mountain, the role of fluids in crustal heat transport is manifested at the surface by youthful calcretes, sinters, bedrock veins, hydrothermal eruption breccias and hydrothermal alteration. This report discusses evidence for recent metasomatism high in the stratigraphic section at Yucca Mountain. Over the last several hundred years, episodes of calcite emplacement contemporaneous with local mafic volcanism have occurred at intervals that are not long in comparison with the isolation time required for a High-Level Radioactive Waste repository.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- USDOE Nevada Operations Office, Las Vegas, NV (United States). Yucca Mountain Project Office
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); Nevada State Government, Carson City, NV (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 245579
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/NV/10461-T74-Vol.1
ON: DE96009597; TRN: 96:014247
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG08-85NV10461
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Apr 1992
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 05 NUCLEAR FUELS; YUCCA MOUNTAIN; UNDERGROUND FACILITIES; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; GEOLOGY; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; UNDERGROUND STORAGE; SPENT FUELS; TUFF; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION
Citation Formats
Szymanski, J S. The origin and history of alteration and carbonatization of the Yucca Mountain ignimbrites. Volume I. United States: N. p., 1992.
Web. doi:10.2172/245579.
Szymanski, J S. The origin and history of alteration and carbonatization of the Yucca Mountain ignimbrites. Volume I. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/245579
Szymanski, J S. 1992.
"The origin and history of alteration and carbonatization of the Yucca Mountain ignimbrites. Volume I". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/245579. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/245579.
@article{osti_245579,
title = {The origin and history of alteration and carbonatization of the Yucca Mountain ignimbrites. Volume I},
author = {Szymanski, J S},
abstractNote = {This document contains Volume I of the report entitled The Origin and History of Alteration and Carbonatization of the Yucca Mountain Ignimbrites by Jerry S. Szymanski and a related correspondence with comments by Donald E. Livingston. In the Great Basin, the flow of terrestrial heat through the crust is affected in part by the flow of fluids. At Yucca Mountain, the role of fluids in crustal heat transport is manifested at the surface by youthful calcretes, sinters, bedrock veins, hydrothermal eruption breccias and hydrothermal alteration. This report discusses evidence for recent metasomatism high in the stratigraphic section at Yucca Mountain. Over the last several hundred years, episodes of calcite emplacement contemporaneous with local mafic volcanism have occurred at intervals that are not long in comparison with the isolation time required for a High-Level Radioactive Waste repository.},
doi = {10.2172/245579},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/245579},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1992},
month = {Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1992}
}