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Surface-Discharging Hydrothermal Systems at Yucca Mountain – Examining the Evidence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1992

SchÖn S. Levy
SchÖn S. Levy*
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mail Stop D462, Los Alamos, NM 87545
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Abstract

Exposures of altered rock that have been thought to form by recent discharge of water from depth 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. The 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.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 294: Symposium V – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XVI , 1992 , 543
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1993

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