Early-time multiphase interactions between basaltic magma and underground openings at the proposed Yucca mountain radioactive waste repository

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Dartevelle, S ^a   Valentine, G A ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BASALT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; LANDFORMS; MOLTEN MATERIALS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; RADIOACTIVE WASTES;

DYNAMIC PRESSURE WAVES; HAWAIITIC MAGMA; MOUNTAIN REPOSITORY DRIFTS; MULTIPHASE INTERACTIONS; PYROCLASTIC FLOWS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE REPOSITORY;

GEOLOGY;

MAGMATISM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REPOSITORY;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

EID: 30744475678     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024172     Document Type: Article

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