Geoscience data base handbook for modeling a nuclear waste repository

Technical Report · Fri Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:5608057

Isherwood, D

The three chapters of Volume 2 are the results of a scoping study on the geology, geomechanics, and hydrology of basalt and granite, and on the geology and hydrology of shale. The chapters include relatively complete compilations of the data currently available, as well as discussions of the properties that are unique to each rock type. Most of the data are, however, undigested; many of the figures and tables were taken from the original sources without extensive review. The use of symbols, especially in the sections on geomechanics, has been made generally consistent with the chapters of Volume 1; nonetheless, owing to the inconsistencies that pervade the literature, some differences remain. The discussion of shales in the present volume presents brief geologic descriptions of shale formations in the US and compiles extensive hydrologic data. The most thorough data are from the Great Basin, the Rocky Mountains, and the Colorado Plateau. The data on basalts are less copious. Nonetheless, geomechanical data are presented from a variety of places, notably Amchitka Island, the Great Lakes region (the Dresser Basalt), and the Columbia Plateau. The most useful hydrologic data have been collected at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory and the Hanford Reservation on the Columbia Plateau. The geological descriptions of basalt flows focus on the Pacific Northwest. Data on granites come from widely scattered sources, including dam sites, tunnel sites, and quarries around the world.The most systematic geomechanical data, including the results of thermal modeling experiments, have been collected at the Stripa mine project currently underway in Sweden. The chapter on granites also includes descriptions of the major granite batholiths of the US and a discussion of fracture flow that is equally applicable to other rock types.

• Research Organization: California Univ., Livermore (USA). Lawrence Livermore Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 5608057
• Report Number(s): NUREG/CR-0912(Vol.2); UCRL-52719(Vol.2)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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