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Ground Water at Yucca Mountain : How High Can It Rise?.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
National Academies Press,
1991.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ground Water at Yucca Mountain How High Can It Rise?; Copyright; Contents; Executive Summary; INTRODUCTION; HAS IT HAPPENED?; Soils; Springs; Textural/Morphologic Evidence; Breccias; Isotopes; CONCLUSION; CAN IT HAPPEN?; Increased Rainfall; Volcanic Intrusion; Earthquakes; RECOMMENDATIONS; Steep Hydraulic Gradient; Paleozoic Carbonate Aquifer; Scientific Integration/Coordination; 1-Introduction ; REFERENCES; 2-Water Levels in the Vicinity of the Proposed Repository in the Last 100,000 Years ; GEOLOGIC SETTING OF YUCCA MOUNTAIN AND ENVIRONS; Paleozoic; Mesozoic; Cenozoic; Extension.
- Volcanic ActivityActive Tectonics; EPISODIC GROUND-WATER DISCHARGE THESIS; SOIL DEVELOPMENT AND GEOMORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTER OF THE REGION; HYDROLOGIC EVIDENCE FROM SPRINGS; Devils Hole; Wahmonie Spring; The Age of the Wahmonie Site; Cane Spring; MORPHOLOGIC/TEXTURAL EVIDENCE EXHIBITED BY CHEMICAL PRECIPITATES; EVIDENCE EXHIBITED BY BRECCIAS; GEOCHEMICAL AND MINERALOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS; ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE; Stable Isotopes: 13C and 18O; Tracer Isotopes: Sr, U, and Th; CONCLUSIONS; RECOMMENDATIONS; Additional Characterization of Carbonate Veins in Core; Fluid Inclusion Studies.
- Isotopic Composition of Windblown DustAdditional Studies at Site 199; REFERENCES; 3-Might Increased Rainfall Cause Flooding of the Proposed Repository? ; INTRODUCTION; HYDROGEOLOGICAL SETTING; A MODEL OF GROUND-WATER FLOW AT YUCCA MOUNTAIN; EVIDENCE FOR PAST VARIABILITY IN RAINFALL; Chronological Framework; Geographic and Paleohydrologic Framework; The Paleoecological Record; PALEOCLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTIONS; Full-Glacial Climates; The Terminal Wisconsin-Early Holocene; Climates of the Last 8,000 Years; MODEL CALCULATIONS OF POTENTIAL RISE IN THE GROUND-WATER TABLE DUE TO INCREASED PRECIPITATION.
- CONCLUSIONSRECOMMENDATIONS; REFERENCES; 4-Can an Igneous Intrusion Raise the Water Table to the Proposed Repository Level? ; SUMMARY OF TERTIARY VOLCANIC HISTORY OF THE REGION; STYLE AND SIZE OF A LIKELY INTRUSION IN THE YUCCA MOUNTAIN REGION; MODELS OF WATER TABLE RISE ACCOMPANYING DIKE INTRUSION; POSSIBLE DEEP (LOWER CRUSTAL) MAGMA CHAMBERS IN THE YUCCA MOUNTAIN REGION; PROBABILISTIC ASSESSMENT OF THE LIKELIHOOD OF A BASALTIC DIKE INTRUSION; CONCLUSIONS; RECOMMENDATIONS; REFERENCES; 5-Could a Nearby Earthquake Cause Flooding of the Proposed Repository? ; INTRODUCTION.
- Contemporary Crustal MotionsRecommendation; HYDROLOGIC RESPONSES TO EARTHQUAKES; HISTORICAL EVIDENCE; Loma Prieta, California; Anchorage, Alaska; Borah Peak, Idaho; RECOMMENDATION; EARTHQUAKE MODELS; Introduction; Dislocation Models; Regional Stress Change Models; Sources of Information on In Situ Physical Properties; CONCLUSIONS BASED ON RESULTS OF MODELING TO DATE; A Possible Alternate Modeling Approach: Discontinuum Analysis of Ground-Water Motion; RECOMMENDATION; EARTHQUAKE PROBABILITY; CONCLUSIONS; RECOMMENDATIONS; REFERENCES; 6-Summary of Conclusions and Recommendations.