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Surface-Discharging Hydrothermal Systems at Yucca Mountain – Examining the Evidence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 1992
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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