 | | Report (volume) | | Department of Energy Ny · · ·e">CNevada Distribution, Characterization, and Genesis...Mordenite in Miocene Silicic Tuffs at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada By RICHARD A. SHEPPARD, ARTHUR j...mordenite in Miocene silicic tuffs at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada. (U.S. Geological Survey bulletin... Mordenite-Nevada-Yucca Mountain Region. 2. Volcanic ash, tuff, etc.Nevada-Yucca Mountain Region. 3....4. Geology-Nevada-Yucca Mountain Region. 5. Radioactive waste disposal in the ground-Nevada-Yucca Mountain |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PALEOHYDROLOGIC CONDITIONS IN SILICIC TUFF FROM YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NEVADA DAVID J L. BISH' AND JAMES L. ARONSON2...Abstract-The clay mineralogy of tuffs from Yucca Mountain, Nevada, the potential site of the nation's first...clay-mineral separates from three drill holes at Yucca Mountain (USW G-l, USW G-2, and USW GU-3/G-3) were studied...and G-2. The predominant clay minerals in the Yucca Mountain tuffs are interstratified liS, with minor amounts...portion of Yucca Mountain were altered 10.0-11 my ago, soon after creation of the Timber Mountain caldera |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | diageneticallyaltered volcanic rocks at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, having formed by posteruptive reactions...from fractured devitrified tuffs at the adjacent Nevada Nuclear Test Site, is approximately in equilibrium...observed in weathered zeolitized vitric tuffs at Yucca Mountain. The activity diagrams indicate that prolonged...ash-flowtuffs are the predominant rocks at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, the site of the proposed repository for...Clinoptilolites analyzedin drill-core samplesthroughout Yucca Mountain and its vicinity display wide compositional |  | Feng, Xiahong, Faiia, Anthony M., WoldeGabriel, Giday, Aronson, James L., Poage, Michael A., Chamberlain, C. Page (1999) Oxygen isotope studies of illite/smectite and clinoptilolite from Yucca Mountain: implications for paleohydrologic conditions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 171 (1) 95-106 doi:10.1016/s0012-821x(99)00136-3 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of illite/smectite and clinoptilolite from Yucca Mountain: implications for paleohydrologic conditions...Hanover, NH 03755, USA t, Los Alamos National Laboratory, EES-1/D462, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA Received 13...in 11 Ma old altered volcanic tufts of Yucca Mountain, Nevada were analyzed for 3180 values. We reconstruct...Miocene episode of hydrothermal alteration at Yucca Mountain. We provide additional evidence for a dual...decoupled groundwater circulation system at Yucca Mountain ca. 11 Ma ago. A near-surface system dominated |  | | Report (issue) | | DRILL HOLES USU GU-3 and USU G-3, YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA Open-File Report 84-491 Prepared...Prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey for the Nevada Operations Office U.S. Department of Energy (Interagency...DRILL HOLES USW GU-3 and USU G-3, YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA By Robert B. Scott*, and Mayra Castellanos2...............(in pocket) 1. Location map of Yucca Mountain...................... 3 2. Location of drill... at Yucca Mountain................................ Generalized geologic map of Yucca Mountain showing |  | Carr, M.D., Waddell, S.J., Vick, G.S., Stock, J.M., Monsen, S.A., Harris, A.G., Cork, B.W., Byers, F.M. (1986) Geology of drill hole UE25p1; a test hole into pre-Tertiary rocks near Yucca Mountain, southern Nevada. Open-File Report Vol. 1986 (86-175) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr86175 | Report (issue) | | hole into pre-Tertiary rocks near Yucca Mountain, southern Nevada by Michael D. Carr Sandra J. Waddel1...hole into pre-Tertiary rocks near Yucca Mountain, southern Nevada by Michael D. Carr 1 Sandra J. Waddell...SECTION AT BARE MOUNTAIN..................................................... 16 Roberts Mountain Formation....................... 16 Roberts Mountain Formation at Bare Mountain.......................... 18 Age........................................ 18 Lone Mountain Dolomite..................................... |  | | Report (issue) | | .............................................. Nevada .................................................in southeastern California, northern and central Nevada, and eastern and southeastern Oregon. The host...locality at the Durkee opal mine near Durkee, Baker County, Oregon. The name was derived from a Greek word...found until Deffeyes (1959) described material from Nevada and Wyoming. Unlike the type erionite, these subsequent...produced a minor tonnage from their Jersey Valley, Nevada deposit (Papke, 1972) for internal use as a catalyst |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | clinoptilolite-mordenite authigenic zones from Yucca Mountain in Nye County, Nevada. It is likely that for Polyegos...clinoptilolite from Miocene silicic tuffs at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada. Its formation was attributed to... for the clinoptilolite-rich tuff from thc Yucca Mountain, mordenite was formed from clinoptilolite after..."c. During hydrothermal experiments, mordenite, analcime and albite were synthesized from natural c1inoptilolite...experiments (Kusakabe et al. 1981), the formation of analcime was restricted to conditions of pH not less than |  | | Report (issue) | | PETROGRAPHY OF THE BEDDED TUFFS, YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA By Sharon F. Diehl and Michael P...Open-File Report 89-3 Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Operations Office U.S. Department of Energy (Interagency...PETROGRAPHY OF THE BEDDED TUFFS, YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA By Sharon F. Diehl U.S. Geological............. Stratigraphy of bedded tuffs at Yucca Mountain.................. Methods of study............................. Diagenetic zones in the Yucca Mountain stratigraphic column...................... |  | | Report (issue) | | VOLCANIC ROCKS IN DRILL HOLE USW-G1, YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA By Richard M. Spengler1 , F. M.......................................... 26 26 Yucca Mountai n and Pah Canyon Members................... x [in pocket] Figure 1.--Index map of the Nevada Test Site and vicinity showing location of study...1.--Abridged drill hole history of USW-G1, Yucca Mountain.................................. 2.--Major...VOLCANIC ROCKS IN DRILL HOLE USW-G1, YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA By Richard W. Spengler, F. M. Byers |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (Table 1) are clinoptilolite, erionite, chabazite, analcime, phillipsite, mordenite, * E-mail address of...ehir, clinoptilolite and smectite in Yozgat, and analcime, clinoptilolite, phillipsite, K-feldspar, smectite...deposit consists of clinoptilolite, heulandite, analcime, phillipsite, smectite, opal-CT, quartz, K-feldspar...amounts of analcime, calcite, opal-CT, K-feldspar, smectite and quartz. Clinoptilolite, analcime, opal-CT...and smectite are found in the Gördes deposits; analcime, clinoptilolite, smectite, quartz, cristobalite |  | | Report (volume) | | EDGE-SHARING FOUR-MEMBERED RINGS AND RELATED STRUCTURES Analcime, wairakite, pollucite, leucite, ammonioleucite................ . . . . .... ............ . .78 Analcime: Na16[Al16Si32096} 16H20 ... . . . . . . ....... Diagenetic alteration of volcanic tuff: Yucca Mountain, Nevada . . . . 129 . 1 32 Heulandite-stellerite...equilibria . . . .. Clinoptilolite-analcime equilibria at Yucca Mountain . . . .. . 134 Zeolite stability.... . .. .. 262 Yucca M ountain, Nevada . . . . 263 Southerq Desatoya Mountains, Nevada . . ....... .. |  | | Report (issue) | | RADIOACTIVE WASTE REPOSITORY SITE AT YUCCA MOUNTAIN, SOUTHERN NYE COUNTY, NEVADA compiled by the U.S. Geological...Report 84-792 Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Operations Office U.S. Department of Energy (Interagency...California 1984 PREFACE Yucca Mountain in southern Nye County, Nevada has been under investigation...description of specific aspects of the geology of Yucca Mountain. The technical data discussed in this report............................. Geologic map of Yucca Mountain..................... Geologic cross section |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and stability of zeolitesin aqueoussolution: I. Analcime, Na-, and K-clinoptilolite R.T. Wrr-rrNx,q.nn...log K,, values for the Mont St. Hilaire analcime, Wikieup analcime,Na-clinoptilolire,and K-clinoptilolite...and 1 bar for the Mont St. Hilaire analcime and Wikieup analcime are -3089.2 and -3044.4 kJ/mol, respectively...indicate that the aluminosilicate frameworks of analcime and clinoptilolite are stabilized by an increasein...metamorphic conditions(e.g.,Iijima and Utada 1966). Analcime and clinoptilolite are common in all of these |  | | Report (issue) | | INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Safety of Proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository as Regards Geological and...Denver, Colorado 80225 1992 Safety of Proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository as Regards Geological and...of Energy, via its Las Vegas Office and the Yucca Mountain Project, organized a five-man panel to evaluate...of the proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. Two reports resulted from the work of the...Hydro-logic and Geologic Processes at the Proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository', Minority Report |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | quantitative determination ofclinoptilolite in soils 463 Analcime chemical composition, electron microprobe analysis...Bentonite (see also Montmorillonite, Smectite) analcime, clinoptilolite replacement of 449 hydrothermal...Chemistry of Diagenetic Minerals at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada 89 Black shale Excello, petrology...Chemistry, of Diagenetic Minerals at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada 89 BURTON, J. H. (with D. H. KRINSLEYand...and Takashi Watanabe l l l Chemical composition analcime in altered tuff, electron microprobe analysis |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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...Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories for the Yucca Mountain Project by the Office of Civilian Radioactive...bytownite, 0.75 for grossular, 0.63 for laumontite and analcime, 0.47 for Caheulandite, and 0.4 for clinoptilolite...Mineralogy-petrology and groundwater chemistry of Yucca Mountain Tuffs. Mat. Res. Sot. Symp. Proc. 26,283-29 |  | | Report (issue) | | Related to Bullfrog Hills Caldera, Nye County, Nevada and Inyo County, California By HENRY R. CORNWALL...PROFESSIONAL PAPER 454-J Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Bureau of Mines UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING...Roberts Mountains Formation.__________________ Lone Mountain Dolomite..______________________ Other Paleozoic...Bullfrog quadrangle, Nevada-California. 2. Columnar section of Paleozoic rocks on Bare Mountain. 3. Columnar...Generalized geologic map of the Bullfrog Hills and Yucca Mountain calderas. 5. Columnar section of rocks in the |  | | 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...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...lithium enrichment in the Popotosa Formation, Socorro County, New Zeolite Bibliography Page 5 Mexico." |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Copyright © 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/96 $15.00 + .00 Pergamon...in calcite compositions from tufts at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA DAVID T. VANIMAN a n d STEVE J. CH1PERA...Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA (Received November 6, 1995; accepted in revisedform...and UZ, respectively) in the tuffs at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA. In the upper UZ, the major constituents...reflect deep sources, including Ca released as analcime or albite formed and carbonates derived from underlying |  | | Report (issue) | | GEOHYDROLOGIC DATA FOR TEST WELL USW H-6 YUCCA MOUNTAIN AREA, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA by R. W. Craig, R. L. Reed, ...Report 83-856 Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Operations Office U.S. Department of Energy (Interagency... GEOHYDROLOGIC DATA FOR TEST WELL USW H-6 YUCCA MOUNTAIN AREA, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA by R. W. Craig, R. L. Reed, and...drilled in and near Yucca Mountain adjacent to the Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada, in cooperation with...of Energy. These investigations are part of the Nevada Nuclear Waste Storage Investigations to identify |  | | Report (issue) | | DISTRIBUTION IN DRILL-HOLE USW-G1, YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA By Charles A. Bush, Carl M. Bunker...DISTRIBUTION IN DRILL-HOLE USW-G1, YUCCA MOUNTAIN, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA By Charles A. Bush, Carl M. Bunker...series of test holes drilled in the vicinity of Yucca Mountain to acquire geologic, geophysical, hydrologic...an appreciable amount of zeolites, dominantly analcime. The homogeneity of the unit is indicated by the...volcanic rocks in drill-hole USW-G1, Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | chabazite, erionite, philipsite, mordenite and analcime), carbonate (calcite, dolomite and magnesite)...the dominant lithologies of this unit, contain analcime which is commonly associated with smectite, K-feldspar...clinoptilolite-dominated ones. Dolomite, smectite and analcime are found in mudstones, which contain gypsum lenses...Clinoptilolite Chabasite Erionite 50% 50% 50% Analcime 50% -i-i-~i~--~-~i~---J304 i_-=~-i~i~i~i~iJ304...Mudstone ~ Clinoptilolite Dolomite K-f~ldSo/par Analcime 50% 50% [] Tuff [] Pumices Clinoplilolite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | K-feldspar (Stamatakis, 1989b), clinoptilolite, and analcime show a regular spatial and stratigraphic distribution...in microprobe analyses ofmordenite from Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The XRF analyses of predominantly mprdenitic...analyses reported by Sheppard et al. (1988) from Yucca Mountain (Na:K = 0.57 and 2.19). The average Na:K ratio...been noted in the Miocene silicic tuffs at Yucca Mountain (Sheppard et aI., 1988) and in the diagenetic...facies of the Gila conglomerate near Buckhorn, Grant County, New Mexico: U.S. Geol. Surv. Bull. 1763,22 pp |  | | Report (issue) | | The Geology and Climatology of Yucca Mountain and Vicinity, Southern Nevada and California Copyright©...Place, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140, USA.. Copyright is not claimed on any material prepared... Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140, USA www.geosociety.org Printed in USA GSA Books Science Editor: Marion...The geology and climatology of Yucca mountain and vicinity, Southern Nevada and California I edited by John...Geology--Nevada-- Yucca Mountain Region. 2. Geology--California. 3. Radioactive waste sites--Nevada--Yucca |
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