Fault zone deformation overprints permeability of nonwelded ignimbrite: Chalk cove fault, Bishop Tuff, Bishop, California

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 610-627

  Dinwiddie, Cynthia L ^a   Bradbury, Kelly Keighley ^b   McGinnis, Ronald N ^a   Fedors, Randall W ^a,c   Ferrill, David A ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; DEFORMATION; FAULT GOUGE; FAULT ZONE; FRACTURE; GRAIN SIZE; HOST ROCK; IGNIMBRITE; IN SITU TEST; MATRIX; PERCOLATION; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; TUFF;

BISHOP; CALIFORNIA; NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

EID: 34547883099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2005.0062     Document Type: Article

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