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This paper presents a summary of the data obtained when inclusions in cores from the proposed WIPP site were examined pettrographically, and with microscope freezing, heating, and crushing stages. Fluid now present in the samples studied ranges widely from <0.1 to 1.7 wt.%; the total in situ fluid content of the rock is certainly greater. The inclusion fluid is not just saturated NaCl solution but a variable and extremely saline bittern containing some noncondensable gases under pressure. The inclusions move in thermal gradients and react quickly to uniaxial stress, but decrepitation is estimated to be a more important mechanism of fluid release under thermal loading. Subsequent movement of the released fluids is not considered.
Work supported by U.S. Dept. of Energy, Albuquerque Operations Office.
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Roedder, E., Belkin, H.E. (1979). Application of Studies of Fluid Inclusions in Permian Salado Salt, New Mexico, to Problems of Siting the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. In: McCarthy, G.J., et al. Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9107-8_38
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