Understanding the anomalous temperature data from the Large Block Test at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

Water Resources Research

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 28-1-28-12

  Mukhopadhyay, S ^a   Tsang, Y W ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractures; Hydrological; Large Block Test; Nevada; Thermal; Unsaturated flow; Yucca Mountain

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; HYDROLOGY; RAIN; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SENSORS;

FRACTURE PERMEABILITIES;

GEOLOGY;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FRACTURE; POROUS MEDIUM; TEMPERATURE; UNSATURATED FLOW;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; FRACTURE; TEMPERATURE; UNSATURATED FLOW;

NEVADA; UNITED STATES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

YUCCA;

EID: 0036822613     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001wr001059     Document Type: Article

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