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

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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

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MF available from INIS under the Report Number; OSTI as DE93003790; NTIS; INIS; US Govt. Printing Office Dep.

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
7 p.
Report number
LA-UR--92-3549

Conference

Title
16. Material Research Society international symposium on the scientific basis for nuclear waste management fall meeting.
Dates
30 Nov - 5 Dec 1992.
Place
Boston, MA (United States).

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract W-7405-ENG-36
Funding organization
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States).
Secondary number(s)
CONF-921101--6.