Water supply for the Nuclear Rocket Development Station at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada Test Site
Richard Arden Young
1972, Water Supply Paper 1938
The Nuclear Rocket Development Station, in Jackass Flats, occupies about 123 square miles in the southwestern part of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada Test Site. Jackass Flats, an intermontane valley bordered by highlands on all sides except for a drainage outlet in the southwestern corner, has an average annual...
Wells and springs in California and Nevada within 100 miles of point 37°15' N, 116°25' W, on Nevada test site
William Thordarson, B.P. Robinson
1971, Report
Studies of published and unpublished geologic and ground-water data, for an inventory of 6,032 wells and 754 springs in parts of Inyo and Mono Counties, California, and Clark, Esmeralda, Lincoln, and Nye Counties, Nevada, reveal the following information:A complex sequence of granitic, metamorphic, volcanic, and sedimentary rocks of Precambrian to...
Preliminary analysis of infrared imagery, Pahute Mesa area, Nevada Test Site, NASA site 52
Robert Hamilton Morris, William Douglas Carter, Paul P. Orkild
1970, Open-File Report 70-235
Geologic map of Pahute Mesa, Nevada test site and vicinity, Nye County, Nevada
P. P. Orkild, K. A. Sargent, R.P. Snyder
1969, IMAP 567
No abstract available....
Summary of geologic effects of the Boxcar event, Nevada Test Site
Dayton Delbert Dickey, F. A. McKeown, William L. Ellis
1969, Open-File Report 69-74
A high-yield underground nuclear explosion at the U20i site, formed a sink 1,000 feet in diameter above the explosion point. Fractures opened as far as 20,000 feet from the explosion and rock-falls occurred as far as 15 miles. Most fractures were coincidental with north-trending naturally occurring faults. Maximum displacement along...
Geologic effects of the Greeley event, Nevada Test site
Dayton Delbert Dickey, E.C. Jenkins, F. A. McKeown, W.H. Lee
1969, Open-File Report 69-73
The intermediate yield Greeley event, in which a nuclear device was detonated at a depth of 3,990 feet in Pahute Mesa at the Nevada Test Site, caused fracturing in rocks and spalling of rock from cliffs as far as 3 and 8 miles, respectively, from the detonation point....
Guidebook for past field trips to the Nevada Test Site
Robert Lorenz Christiansen, F. G. Poole, Harley Barnes, P. P. Orkild, F.M. Byers Jr., W. J. Carr, F. A. McKeown, F. N. Houser, E.M. Shoemaker, W.L. Emerick
1969, Open-File Report 69-38
Preliminary lithology of drill hole UCe-1, central Nevada, Supplementary Test Site
David Carl Hedlund, George Sutter Corchary
1969, Open-File Report 69-125
An analysis of gravity data in Area 12, Nevada Test Site
R. R. Wahl
1969, Open-File Report 69-309
The gravity data available from Healey and Miller (1963a) were augmented by new observations along three profiles through two new drill holes in Area 12; UEI2t #1 and UEI2p #1. The data were interpreted to allow evaluation of the geologic structure prior to the planning and excavation of two...
Shock and thermal metamorphism of basalt by nuclear explosion, Nevada test site
O.B. James
1969, Science (166) 1615-1620
Olivine trachybasalt metamorphosed by nuclear explosion is classified into categories of progressive metamorphism: (i) Weak. Plagioclase is microfractured, and augite cotainis fine twin lamellae. (ii) Moderate. Plagioclase is converted to glass, and mafic minerals show intragranular deformation (undulatory extinction, twin lamellae, and, possibly, deformation lamellae), but rock texture is preserved....
Subsurface geology of the Silent Canyon caldera, Nevada Test Site, Nevada
Paul P. Orkild, F.M. Byers Jr., D. L. Hoover, K. A. Sargent
1968, Open-File Report 68-206
Deep drilling in the vicinity of Silent Canyon on eastern Pahute Mesa, Nevada, has revealed a Tertiary volcanic section locally thicker than 14,000 feet. The area drilled covers most of the Silent Canyon caldera and some of the surrounding area. The caldera is rudely elliptical in plan and measures 10...
Records of wells and test holes in the Nevada test site and vicinity (through December 1966)
William Thordarson, R.A. Young, Isaac Judah Winograd
1967, Trace Elements Investigations 872
No abstract available....
Aeromagnetic anomalies related to remanent magnetism in volcanic rocks, Nevada Test Site
G. D. Bath
1967, Open-File Report 67-14
No abstract available....
Rapid estimation of induced and remanent magnetization of rock samples, Nevada Test Site
Charles E. Jahren, G. D. Bath
1967, Open-File Report 67-122
No abstract available. ...
Hydraulic testing techniques of deep drill holes at Pahute Mesa, Nevada test site
R. K. Blankennagel
1967, Open-File Report 67-18
This report describes the testing techniques used by the U. S. Geological Survey to obtain hydrologic data in deep holes drilled in volcanic rocks at Pahute Mesa, Nevada Test Site. The testing program in each hole includes geophysical logging, pumping, and injecting and swabbing between straddle packers. Rock lithologies and...
Records of wells and test holes in the Nevada Test Site and vicinity (through December 1966)
William Thordarson, R.A. Young, I.J. Winograd
1967, Open-File Report 67-218
Hydrogeologic and construction data obtained from 119 test holes, wells, and emplacement holes at the Nevada Test Site and vicinity (through December 1966) are tabulated. The availability of cuttings, cores, lithologic logs, geophysical logs, formation-water analyses, hydraulic test data, and detailed construction data for each hole, as well as references...
Preliminary geologic section from Pahute Mesa, Nevada Test Site, to Enterprise, Utah
P. J. Barosh
1967, Open-File Report 67-11
The 154-mile long geologic cross section trends nearly perpendicular to the structural grain of the Basin-Range province in Nevada, and in Utah extends eastward into the transition zone between the Basin-Range and Colorado Plateau provinces. The structure is characterized by complex thrust: faults, involving uppermost Precambrian to lower Mesozoic sedimentary...
Perched ground water in zeolitized-bedded tuff, Rainier Mesa and vicinity, Nevada test site, Nevada
William Thordarson
1965, Trace Elements Investigations 862
No abstract available....
Subsurface measurements of natural gamma radioactivity, Nevada test site and vicinity, Nye, Lincoln, and Clark counties, Nevada
Carl Maurice Bunker
1965, Trace Elements Investigations 858
No abstract available....
Subsurface measurements of natural gamma radioactivity, Nevada Test Site and vicinity, Nye, Lincoln, and Clark Counties, Nevada
C. M. Bunker
1965, Open-File Report 65-24
Perched Ground Water in Zeolitized-Bedded Tuff, Rainier Mesa and Vicinity, Nevada Test Site, Nevada
William Thordarson
1965, Open-File Report 66-130
Rainier Mesa--site of the first series of underground nuclear detonations--is the highest of a group of ridges and mesas within the Nevada Test Site. The mesa is about 9.5 square miles in area and reaches a maximum altitude of 7,679 feet. The mesa is underlain by welded tuff, friable-bedded tuff,...
Geology of the Pluto Site, Area 401, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada
Ross B. Johnson, John R. Ege
1964, Trace Elements Investigations 841
No abstract available....
Chemistry and movement of ground water, Nevada test site
Stuart Leeson Schoff, John Ezra Moore
1964, Trace Elements Investigations 838
No abstract available....
Chemistry and movement of ground water, Nevada Test Site
S.L. Schoff, J.E. Moore
1964, Open-File Report 64-139
Three chemical types of ground water are distinguished at the Nevada Test Site and vicinity. A sodium-potassium water is related to tuff (in part zeolitized) and to alluvium containing detrital tuff. A calcium-magnesium water is related to limestone and dolomite, or to alluvium containing detritus of these rock types. A...
Geology of the 410 area, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada
R. E. Davis
1964, Open-File Report 64-42
