Applying the squeezing technique to highly consolidated clayrocks for pore water characterisation: Lessons learned from experiments at the Mont Terri Rock Laboratory

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 49, Issue , 2014, Pages 2-21

  Fernandez A M ^a   Sanchez Ledesma D M ^a   Tournassat, C ^b   Melon A ^a   Gaucher, E C ^b,e   Astudillo, J ^c   Vinsot, A ^d  

^a CIEMAT   (Spain)

^b BRGM   (France)

^c Empresa Nacional de Residuos Radiactivos SA   (Spain)

^d ANDRA   (France)

^e CSTJF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SPECIATION; CORE SAMPLES; FLOW OF FLUIDS; POROSITY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SEDIMENTS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER; WATER CONTENT;

CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; FUNCTION OF PRESSURE; HIGH WATER CONTENT; LOW WATER-CONTENT; ONE-DIMENSIONAL COMPRESSIONS; PORE-WATER CHEMISTRY; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SOLUTE DISTRIBUTION;

EXTRACTION;

ARTIFACT; BOREHOLE; CLAY; FLUID FLOW; LABORATORY METHOD; POREWATER; POROSITY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIONUCLIDE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WASTE DISPOSAL;

JURA [SWITZERLAND]; MONT TERRI; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84908703745     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: 18729134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2014.07.003     Document Type: Article

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