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Selected salt single crystals from core samples of bedded salt from the WIPP site have been tested to determine the rate of migration of their liquid-filled (fluid) inclusions in thermal gradients. Gradients of 1.5°C.cm−1, maintained for periods of 3–10 days, at ambient temperatures of 108°–260°C, resulted in rates of movement of 1.2–5.4 cm.yr −1 for cubic inclusions 1 mm on an edge. Inclusions 0.1 mm on an edge moved only ~30% as fast. Increase in ambient temperature and/or gradient increased the rate, in approximately direct proportion. The migration rate for inclusions in different parts of a given sample, however, may vary by a factor of 3, for unknown reasons, and some other interesting observed phenomena are still unexplained.
Work supported by U. S. Dept. of Energy, Albuquerque Oper. Office.
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Roedder, E., Belkin, H.E. (1980). Thermal Gradient Migration of Fluid Inclusions in Single Crystals of Salt from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Site (WIPP). In: Northrup, C.J.M. (eds) Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management. Advances in Nuclear Science & Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3839-0_54
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