 Mineralogical Association of Canada Short Course 43, Winnipeg MB, May 2013, p. xx-xx INTRODUCTION The direct disposal of spent nuclear fuel in geologic repositories, built several hundred metres underground, has been under consideration internationally for 20 to 30 years. Various geologic formations are being, or have been, studied including tuff rock, salt domes, sedimentary clay deposits an...

principal skarn deposits along the northern margin of the ahar batholith from west to east include mazraeh, vine and gowdoul skarn deposits. among these skarn deposits, the mazraeh cu-fe skarn deposit is the most typical skarn deposit in the nw iran. this skarn deposit is located 5 km. north of mazraeh village and 20 km north of ahar town. the origin and development of the skarn can be related ...

During the past 50 years, quartz dissolution kinetics and solubility measurements have been the subject of numerous investigations. Researchers have been motivated either because of their interest in understanding important natural geologic processes in the earth or because of a need to quantify dissolution rates for chemical processes above ground or for geothermal heat extraction underground....

[1] A model is presented here to explain the generation of surface material on Mars using chemical, magnetic, and spectroscopic data from Mars and geologic analogs from terrestrial sites. One basic premise is that the dust/soil units are not derived exclusively from local rocks, but are rather a product of global, and possibly remote, weathering processes. Another assumption in this model is th...

Silica exists in both crystalline and noncrystalline forms, with crystalline silica being the hazard of concern. Silica, or silicon dioxide, exposure is associated with many occupations, including construction workers, laborers, miners, foundry workers, glassmakers, drywall finishers, bricklayers, and tuckpointers.(1) Crystalline silica occurs most commonly in the form of quartz, cristobalite, ...

The Apollo 14 rocks returned to ear th a re divisible into two broad groups: relatively hoinogeneous crystalline rocks and fragmental rocks (breccias). The crystalline rocks are, for the most par t , metaclastic, but a few, including the second largest sample returned, a re aphyric basalts. All of the crystalline rocks a re considered to be clasts dislodged from fragmental rocks. These fragment...

Overview: Stability experiments indicate that amorphous sulfate phases may be important constituents of martian surface materials [1-2]; there is also considerable spectral evidence for non-crystalline sulfate phases on Europa [3-4]. However, the thermal infrared (TIR) and near-infrared (NIR) spectral characteristics of these phases are largely unknown. X-ray amorphous Mg-and Fe-sulfate phases ...

The emerging interest in using stable bedrock formations for industrial purposes, e.g., nuclear waste disposal, has increased the need for understanding microbiological and geochemical processes in deep crystalline rock environments, including the carbon cycle. Considering the origin and evolution of life on Earth, these environments may also serve as windows to the past. Various geological, ch...

We discuss the composition and size distribution of the dust in the coma of comet Hale-Bopp. We do this using a model fit for the infrared emission measured by the infrared space observatory (ISO) and the measured degree of linear polarization of scattered light at various phase angles and wavelengths. The effects of particle shape on the modeled optical properties of the dust grains are taken ...