Predicting the amount of water that may seep into waste emplacement tunnels (drifts) is important for assessing the performance of the proposed geologic repository for highlevel radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The repository will be located in thick, partially saturated fractured tuff that—for the first several hundred years after emplacement— will be heated to above-boiling temper...

During the Cretaceous, the South China Block (SCB) experienced a widely distributed extensional event including numerous plutons emplacement and basin opening. Investigations on the tectonic regime coeval with pluton emplacement, and emplacement mechanism of the pluton remain relatively rare in the SCB. In order to address these questions, a multidisciplinary approach, including field structura...

This paper describes the implementation of an FBG sensor to measure water levels in a dike. The is based on 3D-printed mechanical transducer through which external pressure converted into longitudinal strain exerted fiber. An additional integrated within measures temperature and used compensate for effects first FBG. By employing aluminum alloy case, suitable operations harsh environments rough...

The Palaeogene Ardnamurchan central igneous complex, NW Scotland, was a defining place for the development of the classic concepts of cone-sheet and ring-dyke emplacement and has thus fundamentally influenced our thinking on subvolcanic structures. We have used the available structural information on Ardnamurchan to project the underlying three-dimensional (3D) cone-sheet structure. Here we sho...

The Medusae Fossae Formation (MFF) has long been thought to be of Amazonian age, but recent studies propose that a significant part of its emplacement occurred in the Hesperian and that many of the Amazonian ages represent modification (erosional and redepositional) ages. On the basis of the new formational age, we assess the hypothesis that explosive eruptions from Apollinaris Patera might hav...

Sea level rise due to climate change poses a serious threat human populations in coastal areas. In planning possible countermeasures, it is important consider the potential economic risks and cost of any proposed adaptation. This paper examines effectiveness adaptation measures that combine mangrove afforestation (green infrastructure) dike construction (gray areas considered be at risk inundat...

The origin of horizontal magma-filled sills is disputed, particularly for extensional settings where the opening vertical dikes predicted mode magma intrusion. We simulate long-term extension followed by short-term dike in a two-dimensional viscoelastic medium representing plate spreading center. show that extensionally stressed lithosphere can reduce sublithospheric stresses enough sill given ...