Deep life and gases in the outokumpu deep borehole: Baseline information for nuclear waste disposal in crystalline rock

Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings

Volumn 1265, Issue , 2010, Pages 197-202

  Ahonen, Lasse ^a   Kukkonen, Ilmo ^a   Toppi, Taru ^a   Nyyssönen, Mari ^b   Bomberg, Malin ^b   Nousiainen, Aura ^b   Itävaara, Merja ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES;

CRYSTALLINE BEDROCKS; DEEP BOREHOLES; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS;

RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 78650856887     PISSN: 02729172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1557/proc-1265-aa09-09     Document Type: Conference Paper

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