Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Tectonic events and nuclear facilities
- 2 The nature of tectonic hazards
- 3 The nature of volcanism
- 4 Tectonic uplift and subsidence
- 5 Glacial isostatic adjustment: implications for glacially induced faulting and nuclear waste repositories
- 6 Using global positioning system data to assess tectonic hazards
- 7 Tectonic setting of volcanic centers in subduction zones: three-dimensional structure of mantle wedge and arc crust
- 8 Conceptual model for small-volume alkali basalt petrogenesis: implications for volcanic hazards at the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository
- 9 Aspects of volcanic hazard assessment for the Bataan nuclear power plant, Luzon Peninsula, Philippines
- 10 Multi-disciplinary probabilistic tectonic hazard analysis
- 11 Tsunami hazard assessment
- 12 Regional-scale volcanology in support of site-specific investigations
- 13 Exploring long-term hazards using a Quaternary volcano database
- 14 Estimating spatial density with kernel methods
- 15 Cox process models for the estimation of long-term volcanic hazard
- 16 Spatial distribution of eruptive centers about the Idaho National Laboratory
- 17 Modeling the flow of basaltic magma into subsurface nuclear facilities
- 18 Intrusion dynamics for volatile-poor basaltic magma into subsurface nuclear installations
- 19 Volcanic risk assessment at Yucca Mountain, NV, USA: integration of geophysics, geology and modeling
- 20 Geological issues in practice: experience in siting US nuclear facilities
- 21 Characterizing active tectonic structures for nuclear facilities in Japan
- 22 Issues for coastal sites
- 23 Stable tectonic settings: designing site investigations to establish the tectonic basis for design and safety evaluation of geological repositories in Scandinavia
- 24 The impact of subsidence, uplift and erosion on geological repositories for radioactive wastes
- 25 Recommendations for assessing volcanic hazards at sites of nuclear installations
- 26 Formal expert assessment in probabilistic seismic and volcanic hazard analysis
- Index
- Map
4 - Tectonic uplift and subsidence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Tectonic events and nuclear facilities
- 2 The nature of tectonic hazards
- 3 The nature of volcanism
- 4 Tectonic uplift and subsidence
- 5 Glacial isostatic adjustment: implications for glacially induced faulting and nuclear waste repositories
- 6 Using global positioning system data to assess tectonic hazards
- 7 Tectonic setting of volcanic centers in subduction zones: three-dimensional structure of mantle wedge and arc crust
- 8 Conceptual model for small-volume alkali basalt petrogenesis: implications for volcanic hazards at the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository
- 9 Aspects of volcanic hazard assessment for the Bataan nuclear power plant, Luzon Peninsula, Philippines
- 10 Multi-disciplinary probabilistic tectonic hazard analysis
- 11 Tsunami hazard assessment
- 12 Regional-scale volcanology in support of site-specific investigations
- 13 Exploring long-term hazards using a Quaternary volcano database
- 14 Estimating spatial density with kernel methods
- 15 Cox process models for the estimation of long-term volcanic hazard
- 16 Spatial distribution of eruptive centers about the Idaho National Laboratory
- 17 Modeling the flow of basaltic magma into subsurface nuclear facilities
- 18 Intrusion dynamics for volatile-poor basaltic magma into subsurface nuclear installations
- 19 Volcanic risk assessment at Yucca Mountain, NV, USA: integration of geophysics, geology and modeling
- 20 Geological issues in practice: experience in siting US nuclear facilities
- 21 Characterizing active tectonic structures for nuclear facilities in Japan
- 22 Issues for coastal sites
- 23 Stable tectonic settings: designing site investigations to establish the tectonic basis for design and safety evaluation of geological repositories in Scandinavia
- 24 The impact of subsidence, uplift and erosion on geological repositories for radioactive wastes
- 25 Recommendations for assessing volcanic hazards at sites of nuclear installations
- 26 Formal expert assessment in probabilistic seismic and volcanic hazard analysis
- Index
- Map
Summary
Vertical movements of Earth's surface and the rocks that lie beneath it occur around many parts of the globe in response both to tectonic and non-tectonic processes (e.g. glacial unloading, igneous intrusion). Upward vertical movement (uplift) forms topography, which generally results in erosion; and downward vertical movement (subsidence) creates accommodation space, which generally results in burial. In return, particularly over long timescales, feedbacks occur such that erosion and burial may enhance uplift and subsidence, respectively. Thus, it is vitally important to understand the fundamental drivers of uplift and subsidence (e.g. tectonic or non-tectonic) and the relationship with erosion and burial.
For nuclear facilities, the impacts of uplift and erosion generally are more significant than the impacts of subsidence and burial (McKinley and Chapman, Chapter 24, this volume). Furthermore, given the rates of vertical movement (typically < 10mma−1) and the timescales of interest for different kinds of nuclear facilities, their impacts are most significant for geological repositories for long-lived radioactive waste. The potential impacts of uplift, subsidence, erosion and burial on geological repositories are described in McKinley and Chapman (Chapter 24, this volume) and McKinley and Alexander (Chapter 22, this volume). Briefly, the key factors of interest are: (i) the average regional rate of uplift or subsidence (on a scale on the order of tens or hundreds of kilometers); (ii) the magnitude of differential uplift and erosion (on a scale of 100m to several kilometers); (iii) the potential for extreme, localized erosion or burial; and (iv) the balance between uplift and erosion, and subsidence and burial.
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- Volcanic and Tectonic Hazard Assessment for Nuclear Facilities , pp. 116 - 141Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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