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Mineralogical, Textural and Compositional Data on the Alteration of Basaltic Glass From Kilauea, Hawaii to 300°C: Insights to the Corrosion of a Borosilicate Glass Waste-Form

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

David K. Smith
David K. Smith*
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94550
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Abstract

Mineralogical, textural and compositional data accompanying greenschist facies metamorphism (to 300°C) of basalts of the East Rift Zone (ERZ), Kilauea, Hawaii may be evaluated relative to published and experimental results for the surface corrosion of borosilicate glass. The ERZ alteration sequence is dominated by intermittent palagonite, interlayered smectite-chlorite, chlorite, and actinolite-epidote-anhydrite. Alteration is best developed in fractures and vesicles where surface reaction layers root on the glass matrix forming rinds in excess of 100 microns thick. Fractures control fluid circulation and the alteration sequence. Proximal to the glass surface, palagonite, Fe-Ti oxides and clays replace fresh glass as the surface reaction layer migrates inwards; away from the surface, amphibole, anhydrite, quartz and calcite crystallize from hydrothermal fluids in contact with the glass. The texture and composition of basaltic glass surfaces are similar to those of a SRL-165 glass leached statically for sixty days at 150°C. While the ERZ reservoir is a complex open system, conservative comparisons between the alteration of ERZ and synthetic borosilicate glass are warranted.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 212: Symposium P – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XIV , 1990 , 115
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1991

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