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Water samples (referred to as puddle water samples) were collected from the surfaces of a conveyor belt and plastic sheeting in the unventilated portion of the Enhanced Characterization of the Repository Block (ECRB) Cross Drift in 2003 and 2005 at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The chemistry of these puddle water samples is very different than that of pore water samples from borehole cores in the same region of the Cross Drift or than seepage water samples collected from the Exploratory Studies Facility tunnel in 2005. The origin of the puddle water is condensation on surfaces of introduced materials and its chemistry is dominated by components of the introduced materials. Large CO2 concentrations may be indicative of localized chemical conditions induced by biologic activity.
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Marshall, B.D., Oliver, T.A. & Peterman, Z.E. Chemistry of Water Collected from an Unventilated Drift, Yucca Mountain, Nevada. MRS Online Proceedings Library 985, 1303 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-985-0985-NN13-03
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