Commentary: Assessment of past infiltration fluxes through Yucca Mountain on the basis of the secondary mineral record - Is it a viable methodology?

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 209-217

  Dublyansky, Yuri V ^a   Smirnov, Sergey Z ^a  

^a SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Calcite; Modeling; Nuclear waste; Percolation flux; Seepage; Yucca Mountain

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCITE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUXES; FRACTURE; HYDROLOGIC INSTRUMENTS; IMPURITIES; ROCKS; SEEPAGE; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

INFILTRATION FLUXES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNSATURATED FRACTURED ROCKS; YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEVADA;

INFILTRATION;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; MINERAL;

INFILTRATION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIMULATION;

EID: 14844310408     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2005.01.003     Document Type: Note

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