Earth Sciences Division Berkeley Lab
FUNDAMENTAL AND EXPLORATORY RESEARCH (CONTINUED) The Mineral Dissolution Rate Conundrum Kate Maher, Carl I. Steefel, and Donald J. DePaolo
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Unprecedented Quartz/Water Interface Structure Determined by Phase-Sensitive Sum Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy Victor Ostroverkhov, Glenn Waychunas, and Yuen Ron Shen
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Intragranular Diffusion of Uranium in Sands Tetsu K. Tokunaga, Jiamin Wan, Stephen R. Sutton, and Matt Newville
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As(V) Sorption on Hematite: Complexation Geometry Obtained from Combined Surface X-Ray Diffraction and Grazing-Incidence X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Glenn Waychunas, Tom Trainor, Peter Eng, James Davis, and John Bargar
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Split Hopkinson Resonant Bar Experiment for Fracture Poroelasticity Seiji Nakagawa, Kurt T. Nihei, and Larry R. Myer
Infiltration Flux Distributions in Unsaturated Rocks Tetsu K. Tokunaga, Keith R. Olson, and Jiamin Wan
Natural Abundance and Mobile Fractions of Nanoparticles in Soils Jiamin Wan, Zuoping Zheng, and Tetsu K. Tokunaga
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Evaluating Near-Field TH Processes at Yucca Mountain: The Impact of Natural Convection Jens T. Birkholzer, Nicholaus Halecky, and Gudmundur S. (Bo) Bodvarsson
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Analyzing Drift Seepage at Yucca Mountain in a Performance-Assessment Framework Jens T. Birkholzer and Stefan Finsterle
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A Temperature-Profile Method for Estimating Flow Processes in Geologic Heat Pipes Jens T. Birkholzer
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Nopal I Uranium Deposit as an Analogue for Radionuclide Transport Patrick Dobson, Paul Cook, and Rohit Salve
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Estimating Large-Scale Permeability by Using Independent Lines of Evidence Kazumasa Ito and Kenzi Karasaki
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Calibration of a Large-Scale Groundwater Flow Model Using Transient Pressure Data Christine Doughty, Kenzi Karasaki, and Kazumasa Ito
Finding the Drift Shadow in Nature Timothy J. Kneafsey, Teamrat Ghezzehei, Grace W. Su, and Patrick F. Dobson
Confirmation of the Scale Dependence of the Effective Matrix Diffusion Coefficient Hui-Hai Liu, Quanlin Zhou, and Yingqi Zhang
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Research Summaries 2004-2005
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