According to the recommendations of the ICRP and the German Commission on Radiological Protection, areas should be identified where increased radon concentrations in buildings occur more frequently than on the country-wide average. Such regions are characterized by an increased radon potential of the building ground. The highest indoor concentrations were measured in old houses of granitic grou...

In situ radionuclide migration experiments, followed by excavation and sample characterization, were conducted in a water-conducting shear zone at the Grimsel Test Site (GTS) in Switzerland to study migration paths of radionuclides in fractured granite. In this work, a micro-scale mapping technique was applied by interfacing laser ablation sampling with inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrome...

By using recently determined experimental phase equilibria we show that the viscosity of granitic magmas emplaced atupper crustal levels is approximately constant a -• 104.5 Pa s, irrespective of their temperature and level of emplacement. Magmas crystallizing as granitic plutons are not water-poor and thus not more viscous than their extrusive equivalents. Instead, comparison between pre-erupt...

Circa 1.1 Ga granitic magmatism in Texas was manifested as two compositional groups: (1) the 1.12 Ga Red Bluff granitic suite in west Texas; and (2) 1.12-1.07 Ga granites of the Llano uplift of central Texas. Both suites share some characteristics typical of 'anorogenic' granites (e.g. potassiumand iron-rich bulk compositions, Fe-rich hydrous silicates, emplacement conditions involving low oxyg...

Granite is a typical crystalline material, often used as a building material, but also a candidate host rock for the repository of high-level radioactive waste. The petrographic texture-including mineral constituents, grain shape, size, and distribution-controls the fracture initiation, propagation, and coalescence within granitic rocks. In this paper, experimental laboratory tests and numerica...

I Circa 1.1 Ga granitic magmatism in Texas was manifested as two compositional groups: (1) the 1.12 Ga Red Bluff granitic suite in west Texas; and (2) 1.12-1.07 Ga granites of the Llano uplift of central Texas. Both suites share some characteristics typical of 'anorogenic' granites (e.g. potassiumand iron-rich bulk compositions, Fe-rich hydrous silicates, emplacement conditions involving low ox...

the sargaz granitic intrusion has been emplaced in sargaz ophiolitic suite, south-east of sanandaj-sirjan metamorphic zone, south of kerman province. the central part of the intrusive body contains pinkish coarse-grained granite, but the fractured northern part, neighboring chah-mazraeh fault, has been subjected to pervasive na-metasomatism and related subsolidus reactions. in the northern alte...