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Leslie, B.W., E.C. Pearcy, and J.D. Prikryl, 1993, Oxidative alteration of uraninite under hydrologically unsaturated conditions at Peña Blanca, Chihuahua, Mexico: contaminant transport and source term constraints for the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, in Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XVI, C.G. Interrante and R.T. Pabalan, eds., Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Symposium Proceedings 294, p. 505-512.

Leslie, B.W., D.A. Pickett, and E.C. Pearcy, 1999, Vegetation-derived insights on the mobilization and potential transport of radionuclides from the Nopal I natural analog site, Mexico, in Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXII, D.J. Wronkiewicz and J. Lee, eds., Materials Research Society, Warrendale, Pennsylvania, Symposium Proceedings 556, p. 833-842.

Murphy, W.M., 1992, Natural analog studies for geologic disposal of nuclear waste, Technology Today^®, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, June, p. 16-21.

Murphy, W.M., 1995, Natural analogs for Yucca Mountain, Radwaste Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 6, p. 44-50.

Murphy, W. M., 2000, Natural analogs and performance assessment for geologic disposal of nuclear waste, in Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXIII, R.W. Smith and D.W. Shoesmith, eds., Materials Research Society, Warrendale, Pennsylvania, Symposium Proceedings 608, p. 533-544.

Murphy, W.M., D.A. Pickett, E.C. Pearcy, and D.R. Turner, 2000, Peña Blanca natural analog data in recent performance assessment models for the proposed geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, in Eighth EC Natural Analouge Working Group Meeting Proceedings, European Commission, Luxembourg, in press.

Murphy, W.M., and E.C. Pearcy, 1992, Source-term constraints for the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, derived for the natural analog at Peña Blanca, Mexico, in Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XV, C.G. Sombret, ed., Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Symposium Proceedings 257, p. 521-527.

Murphy, W.M., and E.C. Pearcy, 1993, Performance assessment significance of natural analog studies at Peña Blanca, Mexico, and at Santorini, Greece, in Fifth EC Natural Analogue Working Group Meeting and Alligator River Analogue (ARAP) Final Workshop, H. von Maravic and J. Smellie, eds., EUR 15176 EN, European Commission, Luxembourg, p. 219-224.

Murphy, W.M., E.C. Pearcy, and P.C. Goodell, 1991, Possible analog research sites for the proposed high-level nuclear waste repository in hydrologically unsaturated tuff at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, in Fourth Natural Analogue Working Group Meeting and Pocos de Caldas Project Final Workshop, Commission of European Communities, EUR 13014 EN, p. 267-276.

Murphy, W.M., E.C. Pearcy, and D.A. Pickett, 1997, Natural analog studies at Peña Blanca and Santorini, in Seventh EC Natural Analogue Working Group Meeting, H. Von Maravic and J. Smellie, eds., EUR 17851 EN, European Commission, Luxembourg, p. 105-112.

Murphy, W.M., and R.B. Codell, 1999, Alternate source term models for Yucca Mountain performance assessment based on natural analog data and secondary mineral solubility, in Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXII, D.J. Wronkiewicz and J. Lee, eds., Materials Research Society, Warrendale, Pennsylvania, Symposium Proceedings 556, p. 551-558.

Pearcy, E.C., J.D. Prikryl, and B.W. Leslie, 1995, Uranium transport through fractured silicic tuff and relative retention in areas with distinct fracture characteristics, Applied Geochemistry, Vol. 10, p. 685-704.

Pearcy, E.C., J.D. Prikryl, W.M. Murphy, and B.W. Leslie, 1994, Alteration of uraninite from the Nopal I deposit, Peña Blanca district, Chihuahua, Mexico, compared to degradation of spent nuclear fuel in the proposed US high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, Applied Geochemistry, Vol. 9, p. 713-732.

Pickett, D.A., and W.M. Murphy, 1997, Isotopic constraints on radionuclide transport at Peña Blanca, in Seventh EC Natural Analogue Working Group Meeting, H. Von Maravic and J. Smellie, eds., EUR 17851 EN, European Commission, Luxembourg, p. 113-122.

Pickett, D.A., and W.M. Murphy, 1999, Unsaturated zone waters from the Nopal I natural analog Chihuahua, Mexico - implications for radionuclide mobility at Yucca Mountain, in Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXII, D.J. Wronkiewicz and J. Lee, eds., Materials Research Society, Warrendale, Pennsylvania, Symposium Proceedings 556, p. 809-816.

Pickett, D.A., and W.M. Murphy, 2000, Uranium chemistry and isotopy in waters and rocks at Peña Blanca, in Eighth EC Natural Analouge Working Group Meeting Proceedings, European Commission, Luxembourg, in press.

Prikryl, J.D., D.A. Pickett, W.M. Murphy, and E.C. Pearcy, 1997, Migration behavior of naturally-occurring radionuclides at the Nopal I uranium deposit, Chihuahua, Mexico, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, Vol. 26, p. 61-69.

Non-CNWRA^® Publications

Ajuria-Garza, S., and S. Constantino-Herrera, 1976, Exploration, mining, and milling of uranium ore in Mexico, in Pacific Basin Conference on Nuclear Power Development and the Fuel Cycle, American Nuclear Society, Honolulu, Hawaii, p. 215-222.

Ajuria-Garza, S., and W.D. Jamrack, 1976, Treatment of an isolated high-grade, low tonnage uranium ore body, in Uranium Ore Processing, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria, p. 107-118.

Alba, L.A., and R. Chavez, 1974, K-Ar ages of volcanic rocks from the central Sierra Peña Blanca, Chihuahua, Mexico, Isochron West, Vol. 10, p. 21-23.

Allard, T., and J.P. Muller, 1998, Kaolinite as an in situ dosimeter for past radionuclide migration at the Earth's surface, Applied Geochemistry, Vol. 13, No. 6, p. 751-765.

Aniel, B., 1983, Uranium deposits associated with Tertiary silicic volcanism of the Sierra Peña Blanca (Chihuahua, Mexico). Third Cycle Doctoral Dissertation, Geology and Geochemistry of Uranium, Memoire No. 2, June 1983, Center for Research on the Geology of Uranium, eds., Vandoeuver-les-Nancy, France.

Aniel, B., 1983, The uraniferous deposits associated with the Tertiary acid volcanism of the Sierra Peña Blanca, Chihuahua, Mexico, in Geology and Mineral Resources of North-Central Chihuahua, K.F. Clark and P.C. Goodell, eds., El Paso Geological Society, El Paso, Texas, p. 351-352.

Aniel, B., and J. Leroy, 1985, The reduced uraniferous mineralizations associated with the volcanic rocks of the Sierra Peña Blanca (Chihuahua, Mexico), American Mineralogist, Vol. 70, p. 1290-1297.

Bockoven, N.T., 1981, Tertiary stratigraphy of the Sierra del Gallego area of Chihuahua with comparisons to the Peña Blanca uranium district, in Uranium in Volcanic and Volcanoclastic Rocks - AAPG Studies in Geology No. 13, P.C. Goodell and A.C. Waters, eds., American Association of Petroleum Geologists, p. 181-187.

Calas, G., 1977, Les phénomènes d'altèration hydrothermale et leur relation avec les minèralisations uraniféres en milieu volcanique: Le cas des ignimbrites tertiares de la Sierra de Peña Blanca, Chihuahua, Mexico, Sciences Gèologiques Bulletin, Vol. 30, No. 1, p. 3-18.

Cardenas-Flores, D.F., 1983, Volcanic stratigraphy and uranium deposits of central Sierra de Peña Blanca, Chihuahua, Mexico, in Geology and Mineral Resources of North-Central Chihuahua, K.F. Clark and P.C. Goodell, eds., El Paso Geological Society, El Paso, Texas, p. 325-334.

Cardenas-Flores, D.F., 1985, Volcanic stratigraphy and U-Mo mineralization of the Sierra de Peña Blanca district, Chihuahua, Mexico, in Uranium Deposits in Volcanic Rocks, IAEA, eds., International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA-TC-490/31, p. 125-136.

Carraway, K., and P.C. Goodell, 1983, Stream sediment geochemical survey of the Peña Blanca uranium district, Chihuahua, Mexico, in Geology and Mineral Resources of North-Central Chihuahua, K.F. Clark and P.C. Goodell, eds., El Paso Geological Society, El Paso, Texas, p. 353-362.

Cesbron, F., P. Ildefonse, and M.C. Sichere, 1992, New mineralogical data on uranophane and beta-uranophane; synthesis of uranophane, Mineralogical Magazine, Vol. 57, p. 301-308.

Chaulot-Talmont, J.F., 1984, Geologic and structural study of the Tertiary ignimbrites of the Sierra Madre Occidental between Hermosillo and Chihuahua, Mexico, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Paris South, Orsay, France.

Clark, K.F., and F.E. de la Fuente, 1978, Distribution of mineralization in time and space in Chihuahua, Mexico, Mineralium Deposita, Vol. 13, p. 27-49.

Clark, K.F., P.C. Goodell, and J.M. Hoffer, 1988, Stratigraphy, tectonics, and resources of parts of Sierra Madre Occidental Province, Mexico, 1988 Field Conference Guidebook, El Paso Geological Society, El Paso, Texas, 385 p., 1 plate.

Clark, K.F., and P.C. Goodell, 1983, Geology and mineral resources of north-central Chihuahua, 1983 Field Conference Guidebook, El Paso Geological Society, El Paso, Texas, 455 p., 3 plates.

Damon, P.E., M. Shafiqullah, and K.F. Clark, 1981, Age trends of igneous activity in relation to metallogenesis in the southern Cordillera, Arizona Geological Society Digest, Vol. 14, p. 137-154.

Finkelman, R.B., H.T. Evans, and J.J. Matzko, 1974, Manganese minerals in geodes from Chihuahua, Mexico, Mineralogical Magazine, Vol. 39, p. 549-558.

George-Aniel, B., J. Leroy, and B. Poty, 1985, Uranium deposits of the Sierra Peña Blanca: three examples of mechanisms of ore deposit formation in a volcanic environment, in Uranium Deposits in Volcanic Rocks, IAEA, eds., International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA-TC-490/31, p. 175-186.

George-Aniel, B., J. Leroy, and B. Poty, 1991, Volcanogenic uranium mineralizations in the Sierra Peña Blanca district, Chihuahua, Mexico: Three genetic models, Economic Geology, Vol. 86, No. 2, p. 233-248.

Goodell, P.C., 1981, Geology of the Peña Blanca uranium deposits, Chihuahua, Mexico, in Uranium in Volcanic and Volcanoclastic Rocks - AAPG Studies in Geology No. 13, P.C. Goodell and A.C. Waters, eds., American Association of Petroleum Geologists, p. 275-291.

Goodell, P.C., 1983, Geochemical characteristics of the Peña Blanca uranium district, Chihuahua, Mexico, in Geology and Mineral Resources of North-Central Chihuahua, K.F. Clark and P.C. Goodell, eds., El Paso Geological Society, El Paso Texas, p. 345-350.

Goodell, P.C., 1985, Chihuahua City uranium province, Chihuahua, Mexico, in Uranium Deposits in Volcanic Rocks, IAEA, eds., International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA-TC-490/31, p. 97-124.

Goodell, P.C., 1992, Chihuahua City uranium province, Chihuahua, Mexico, in Energy Resources of the Chihuahua Desert Region, P.C. Goodell, G. Garcia, and I. Reyes, eds., El Paso Geological Society, El Paso, Texas, p. 221-223.

Ildefonse, P., P. Agrinier, and J.P. Muller, 1990, Crystal chemistry and isotope geochemistry of alteration associated with the Nopal I uranium deposit, Chihuahua, Mexico, Chemical Geology, Vol. 84, p. 371-372.

Ildefonse, P., J.P. Muller, B. Clozel, and G. Calas, 1990, Study of two alteration systems as natural analogues for radionuclide release and migration, Engineering Geology, Vol. 29, p. 413-439.

Ildefonse, P., J.P. Muller, B. Clozel, and G. Calas, 1991, Record of past contact between altered rocks and radioactive solutions through radiation-induced defects in kaolinite, in Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management, T. Abrajano, Jr. and L.H. Johnson, eds., Materials Research Society, Symposium Proceedings 212, p. 749-755.

Keller, P.C., N.T. Bockoven, and F.W. McDowell, 1982, Tertiary volcanic history of the Sierra del Gallego area, Chihuahua, Mexico, Geological Society of America Bulletin, Vol. 93, p. 303-314.

Leroy, J.L., B. Aniel, and B. Poty, 1987, The Sierra Peña Blanca (Mexico) and the Meseta Los Frailes (Bolivia): The uranium concentration mechanisms in volcanic environment during hydrothermal processes, Uranium, Vol. 3, p. 211-234.

Leroy, J.L., and B. George-Aniel, 1992, Volcanism and uranium mineralization: the concept of source rock and concentration mechanism, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Vol. 50, p. 247-272.

Magonthier, M.C., 1984, Les ignimbrites de la Sierra Madre Occidental et de la province uranifére de la Sierra Peña Blanca, Mexique, Mèm. Sci. Terre, Univ. P. et M. Curie, Paris, Vol. 84-17, 351 p.

Magonthier, M.C., 1985, Petrographic and geochemical characteristics of the ignimbritic units containing uranium mineralization of the Sierra Peña Blanca, Mexico, in Uranium Deposits in Volcanic Rocks, IAEA, eds., International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA-TC-490/7, p. 137-150.

Magonthier, M.C., 1987, Relations entre les minéralisations d'uranium de la Sierra Peña Blanca (Mexique) et les ignimbrites porteuses, Bulletin Minèralogie, Vol. 110, p. 305-317.

Mitchell, S.M., P.C. Goodell, D.V. Lemone, and N.E. Pingitore, 1981, Uranium mineralization of Sierra Gomez, Chihuahua, Mexico, in Uranium in Volcanic and Volcanoclastic Rocks - AAPG Studies in Geology No. 13, P.C. Goodell and A.C. Waters, eds., American Association of Petroleum Geologists, p. 293-310.

Muller, J.P., P. Ildefonse, and G. Calas, 1990, Para-magnetic defect centers in hydrothermal kaolinite from an altered tuff in the Nopal uranium deposit, Chihuahua, Mexico, Clays and Clay Minerals, Vol. 38, No. 6, p. 600-608.

Muller, J.P., B. Clozel, P. Ildefonse, and G. Calas, 1992, Radiation-induced defects in kaolinites: indirect assessment of radionuclide migration in the geosphere, Applied Geochemistry, Vol. 1, p. 205-216.

Reyes-Cortez, I., 1997, Geologic studies in the Sierra de Peña Blanca, Mexico, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas.

Stege, B., N.E. Pingitore, P.C. Goodell, and D.V. LeMone, 1981, Limestone bedrock as a barrier to uranium migration, Sierra Peña Blanca, Chihuahua, Mexico, in Uranium in Volcanic and Volcanoclastic Rocks - AAPG Studies in Geology No. 13, P.C. Goodell and A.C. Waters, eds., American Association of Petroleum Geologist, p. 265-274.

Wenrich, K.J., P.J. Modreski, R.A. Zielinski, and J.A. Seeley, 1982, Margaritasite: a new mineral of hydrothermal origin from the Peña Blanca uranium district, Mexico, American Mineralogist, Vol. 67, p. 1273-1289.

Wong, V., 1994, Nopal I uranium deposit, Peña Blanca District, Chihuahua, Mexico: A study of radionuclide migration in a natural analogue to Yucca Mountain, Nevada, M.S. Thesis, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas.

Wong, V., E.Y. Anthony, and P.C. Goodell, 1996, Nopal I uranium deposit: A study of radionuclide migration, Proceedings Seventh International Conference on High-Level Radioactive Waste Management, American Nuclear Society, p. 43-46.

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