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Agate from
Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Agate
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Agate data
Locality Data:Click here to view Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:706133
Long-form Identifier:1:3:706133:2
GUID (UUID V4):e61314b9-489a-4099-b78d-c5f3dbeb6d5b
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LITHIUM SORPTION TO ZEOLITIC ALLUVIUM NEAR YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEVADA E N ID J . S UL L I VA N 1 , * , P A UL...Mexico 87545, USA MS J514, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA MS D469, Los...National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA Abstract—The Li+ ion is used frequently as an environmentally...radionuclides in saturated alluvium south of Yucca Mountain, Nevada, the site of a proposed nuclear waste repository...Sorption, Reactive Tracer, Yucca Mountain. INTRODUCTION Yucca Mountain, Nevada, located ~145 km northwest
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LITHIUM SORPTION TO ZEOLITIC ALLUVIUM NEAR YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEVADA E NID J. S ULL I VAN 1 , *, P AUL W . R...Mexico 87545, USA MS J514, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA 3 MS D469,...National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA 2 Abstract—The Li+ ion is used frequently as an...radionuclides in saturated alluvium south of Yucca Mountain, Nevada, the site of a proposed nuclear waste repository...Sorption, Reactive Tracer, Yucca Mountain. INTRODUCTI ON Yucca Mountain, Nevada, located ~145 km northwest
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U-series disequilibrium approach, Pahute Mesa, Nevada, USA James B. Paces a, Paul J. Nichols b, Leonid A...through fractured felsic tuffs and lavas at the Nevada National Security Site represents the most likely...ïŹ‚ow through areas at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS, formerly Nevada Test Site) that hosted underground...yn . UE-19fS irs ty C UTM-Y (m) 4,130,000 Yucca Flat 4,100,000 Oasis Valle y Th 4,110,000 ...000 550,000 560,000 570,000 580,000 UTM-X (m) Nevada National Security Site boundary Sample locations
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InstituteÒ, 6220 Culebra Road, San Antonio, TX 78238, USA Received 4 March 2008; accepted in revised form 26... All rights reserved. 1. INTRODUCTION Yucca Mountain, Nevada, is being evaluated as a potential geologic...waste (HLW). Most of the HLW to be housed at Yucca Mountain is spent nuclear fuel (SNF) derived from nuclear...designed to simulate conditions at a potential Yucca Mountain repository indicate that the calcium uranyl...natural analog to the potential HLW repository at Yucca Mountain (Pearcy et al., 1994). * Fax: +1 210 522 5184
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is the most abundant zeolite in the Yucca mountain tuff in Nevada. This tuff has been suggested as a possible...studies of the Topopah Spring Member of the Yucca Mountain in Nevada have shown that heulandites and clinoptilolites...seventy-two oxygens. The heulandite was crushed in an agate mortar and sieved to the size range of 75- 125 pm...Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories for the Yucca Mountain Project by the Office of Civilian Radioactive...Mineralogy-petrology and groundwater chemistry of Yucca Mountain Tuffs. Mat. Res. Sot. Symp. Proc. 26,283-29
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Mn-rich rocks from the Hutter mine, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, U.S.A.: Implications for miscibility...593 609 The geohydrologic setting of Yucca Mountain, Nevada— John S. Stuckless and William W. Dudley...units at the potential repository level, Yucca Mountain, Nevada—Zell E. Peterman and Paul L. Cloke Mineralogical...Kercher U-Pb ages of secondary silica at Yucca Mountain, Nevada: implications for the paleohydrology of...calcite and silica in the unsaturated zone, Yucca Mountain, Nevada—Joseph F. Whelan, James B. Paces, and Zell
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Copyright © 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/â«ș1899 $20.00 â«č .00...cation exchange in zeolitized tuffs at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA DAVID T. VANIMAN,* STEVE J. CHIPERA,...Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA (Received December 6, 2000; accepted in revised form...horizons in the unsaturated zone (UZ) at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA, are an important component in concepts...that accompanied open-system zeolitization at Yucca Mountain. This approach also provides measures of the
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millions of years. Uraniferous opals from Spor Mountain and the Thomas Range, Utah, U.S.A., are examined...repository of high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, U.S.A. (Ewing and von Hippel 2009; Long...Geochronological studies of U-bearing opals at Yucca Mountain and Spor Mountain, Utah, U.S.A., show that amorphous... adsorption, and incorporation of U into opal, agate, chalcedony, and amorphous silica (Dugger et 1154...background on the occurrence of opal at Spor Mountain The Spor Mountain district is situated along the western
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structure, whereas chalcedony reveals a fibrous growth. Agate is banded chalcedony. Figure 1 (above). The arid...The beautiful reds and yellows that are found in agate are due to trace amounts of amorphous iron oxides...the best known. However, knowledge of even older agate hosts is not new. Agates from the 2.72 Ga Chichester... are regarded as being close to the age of the agate (Moxon and RĂ­os 2004). None of the agates were...are bands of macrocrystalline quartz between the agate banding. However, eight of the nine Western Australian
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...-Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.- rst
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MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist
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and genesis of horizontal banding in Brazilian agate: an X-ray diffraction, thermogravimetric and electron...banded and wall-lining agate, a silica inïŹll seals the gap between the agate and the cavity wall. The...opal-CT ? opal-C ? chalcedony pathway. K EY WORDS : agate, chalcedony, mogánite, cristobalite, horizontal...varieties in which the colour is fairly uniform and agate, in which the colour is arranged in bands (Deer...Formation, South Dakota, USA (Clark, 2009); the Phosphoria Formation, Montana, USA (Götze et al., 2009)]
Report (volume)
Fritts. _______ Belted Range Tuff of Nye and Lincoln Counties, Nevada, by K. A. Sar>gent, D. C: Noble, and...Salyer and Wahmonie Formations of southeastern Nye County, Nevada, by F. G. Poole, W. J. Carr, and D. P. Elston...__ : _ Paintbrush Tuff and Timber Mountain Tuff of Nye County, Nevada, by Paul P. Orkild. _ __- _ _ _ _...Member________-- _-__-.__-_____________:___ Timber Mountain Tuff __ ___._ _____-_.- _-__.___._ _ __________...Eleana Formation (Devbman'arid Mississippian) in the Nevada Test Site, by F. G. Poole, Paul P. Orkild, Mackenzie
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clinoptilolite in the rhyolitic tuffs at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, a potential repository for high-level...1996; Carey and Bish 1996). Clinoptilolite at Yucca Mountain is particularly important becauseof its hy...rates below 200 of acmite, carefully crushed in an agate mortar, and "C (e.g., Johnson et al. 1982). However...uncertainty in the Z the volcanic tuffs at Yucca Mountain (Broxton et al. reported here is + 1.5 'C....reported by Helgeson et al. (1978). They derived County, Oregon with the composition N%.r&,rCao-thermodynamicdata
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1223–1244 A re-examination of water in agate and its bearing on the agate genesis enigma TERRY MOXON 55 Common...atmospheric water vapour pressure conditions. After agate acclimatization at 20°C and 46% relative humidity...problems have consequences for water quantification in agate and chalcedony using infrared or thermogravimetric...thermogravimetric techniques. Mobile and total water in agate is considered in relation to host-rock age, mogánite...contents allowing comment on quartz development and agate genesis. The water data also supports previous claims
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minerals Review Agate Genesis: A Continuing Enigma Terry Moxon 1 and Galina Palyanova 2,3, * 1 2 3 ...discussions based on observations on host rock and agate thick sections. Over the next 25 years, experimental...identifying the physical and chemical properties of agate. The outcome of this work has allowed limited evidence-based...evidence-based comment on the conditions of agate formation. There is a general consensus that agates...Keywords: agate; chalcedony; XRD; genesis; moganite; crystallite growth; age 1. Introduction Agate and chalcedony
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Ontario Amelia, Virginia Lunar Crater, Nevada Essex County, New York Oregon Sonora, Mexico Fuggoppe...authors Castle Creek, Idaho Fish Creek Mountains, Nevada Sheaville, Oregon Buckhorn, New Mexico Death Valley...Stuart Poona, India Lovelock, Nevada Union Pass, Arizona Yucca Mountain, Nevada Custer City, Idaho Tokaj Mountains...°C Hot Springs, Arkansas Crook County, Wyoming Yucca Mountain, Nevada Minerals Research Collected by...a Brinkmann automated grinder (equipped with an agate mortar-and-pestle grinding set) to produce a mean
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The Topopah Spring M e m b e r of the Yucca Mountain in Nevada, U.S.A., has been chosen as a future radioactive...studies of the Topopah Spring Member of the Yucca Mountain in Nevada have shown that heulandites and clinoptilolites...Briefly, a pure mineral fraction was crushed in an agate mortar and sieved to the size range of 75-125 txm...of significance for the clinoptilolite-rich Yucca Mountain tufts, which have been proposed as a future...potential nuclear waste repository, Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada. U.S. Natl. Tech. lnfo. Serv., Rep
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herein. Special regulations for photocopies in the USA: Photocopies may be made for personal or in-house...Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA, Tel.: +1-978-7508400, Fax: +1-978-6468600, http://www...Journal Fulfillment P.O. Box 2485, Secaucus, NJ 07096, USA Tel.: +1-800-SPRINGER, +1-201-348-4033 or +1-212-4601500...Assistant Editor 1009 23" Avenue Tuscaloosa, AL 35401, USA P. O. Box 2310 Tuscaloosa, AL 3540: Tel. (01)-(205)...Denver, CO, USA Dale Easley Dubugne, IA, USA Lee C. Gerhard University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA Suzanne
Crystallite growth kinetics in nanocrystalline quartz (agate and chalcedony) T. MOXON1,* 1 2 AND M. A. CARPENTER2...2009] ABSTR ACT Crystallite growth in natural agate samples has been investigated at temperatures of...at 550ÂșC. Limited growth was obtained when small agate cubes were heated in an open furnace up to 122 d...crystallite growth rate law does not describe natural agate growth quantitatively but a qualitatively similar...similar pattern is observed. K EY WORDS : agate, chalcedony, moganite, crystallite growth, XRD, Zener pinning
Report (issue)
Little Owyhee River wilderness study area, Owyhee County, Idaho." U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1719-C:...wilderness study area, Washoe and Humboldt Counties, Nevada." U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1707-B: 14 p...Akhundov, F. A. (1988). "Origin characteristics of agate and silica-rich zeolites related to Upper Cretaceous...the Tedzami Basin (western part of the Trialeti Mountain Range) [USSR]." Soobshcheniva Akademii Nauk Gruzinskoi...of the Nopah Range wilderness study area, Inyo County, California." U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin
Report (volume)
Diagenetic alteration of volcanic tuff: Yucca Mountain, Nevada . . . . 129 . 1 32 Heulandite-stellerite.... .. Clinoptilolite-analcime equilibria at Yucca Mountain . . . .. . 134 Zeolite stability in saline-alkaline.... . .. .. 262 Yucca M ountain, Nevada . . . . 263 Southerq Desatoya Mountains, Nevada . . ....... .....Tschernichite, a new zeolite from Goble, Columbia County, Oregon. Am Mineral 78:822-826 Bondi M, Griffin...and calcium aluminosilicates. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 16:453-459 Pauling L (1939) The Nature of the Chemical
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Annotated Bibliography and Preliminary Survey of Nevada Paleobotany by Howard E. Schorn 1 - 2 , Christopher...Quadrangle Appendix B: Bibliography Cross-Referenced by County/Quadrangle Appendix C: Bibliography Cross-Referenced...groups of the Nevada Bureau of Land Management, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Nevada Department of...of Transportation, Nevada Parks and Recreation, the Nevada State Museum, and geologists, paleontologists...Annotated Bibliography and Preliminary Survey of Nevada paleobotany arranged alphabetically by author and/or
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veins of zeolite from the earliest Jurassic North Mountain Basalt, in Nova Scotia, have been examined in...of zeolites in amygdales and veins in the North Mountain basalt show a succession of clinoptilolite-Na...Formation. Keywords: zeolite, mordenite, North Mountain basalt, hydrothermal circulation, Nova Scotia...veines provenant des coulĂ©es de basalte de North Mountain, en Nouvelle-Ecosse, d’ñge jurassique prĂ©coce...Mots-clĂ©s: zĂ©olite, mordenite, basalte de North Mountain, circulation hydrothermale, Nouvelle-Ecosse.
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Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC 29808, USA c Canadian Light Source, University of Saskatchewan...In this contribution, microcrystalline silicas (agate and opal-CT) containing 27–137 ppm U have been investigated...and (B) as-is and (C) UV-luminescence colors of Agate-1, note the presence of quartz crystals in the center...Valley Formation, Nevada, USA (Zielinski, 1982). Opal-2 from Nevada County, California, USA (Table 1) consists...sub-samples (Opal-2b and Opal-2w). Agate-1 from the Dryhead area, Montana, USA (Fig. 1B and C), occurs in sedimentary
 
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