Elements of high constructive deltaic sedimentation, lower Frio Formation, Brazoria County, Texas (open access)

Elements of high constructive deltaic sedimentation, lower Frio Formation, Brazoria County, Texas

The lower Frio Formation in eastern Brazoria County, upper Texas Gulf Coast, was deposited in a high constructive deltaic environment in the Houston delta system. Constructive elements of the stacked, elongate to lobate deltas that were intersected in core are storm induced delta front splays, delta front slump deposits, and distributary mouth bar, distributary channel and delta plain assemblages. Reworked and winnowed abandonment facies that are volumetrically insignificant relative to constructive elements are subdivided into a crossbedded shoreface-foreshore subfacies and a fine grained cyclic sequence of storm deposits on the lower shoreface that represent a distal abandonment subfacies. Micropaleontological evidence indicates that deposition of constructive and abandonment facies took place in water depths of less than 120 feet.
Date: January 1, 1982
Creator: Tyler, N. & Han, J. H.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
20-kW Solar Photovoltaic Flat-Panel Power System for an Uninterruptible Power-System Load in El Paso, Texas. Phase Ii. System Fabrication. Final Report October 1, 1979-May 31, 1981 (open access)

20-kW Solar Photovoltaic Flat-Panel Power System for an Uninterruptible Power-System Load in El Paso, Texas. Phase Ii. System Fabrication. Final Report October 1, 1979-May 31, 1981

The system plans, construction, integration and test, and performance evaluation are discussed for the photovoltaic power supply at the Newman Power Station in El Paso, Texas. The system consists of 64 parallel-connected panels, each panel containing nine series-connected photovoltaic modules. The system is connected, through power monitoring equipment, to an existing DC bus that supplies uninterruptible power to a computer that controls the power generating equipment. The site is described and possible environmental hazards are assessed. Site preparation and the installation of the photovoltaic panels, electrical cabling, and instrumentation subsystems are described. System testing includes initial system checkout, module performance test, control system test. A training program for operators and maintenance personnel is briefly described, including visual aids. Performance data collection and analysis are described, and actual data are compared with a computer simulation. System drawings are included. (LEW)
Date: December 1, 1981
Creator: Risser, V.V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Site selection and preliminary evaluation of potential solar-industrial-process-heat applications for federal buildings in Texas (open access)

Site selection and preliminary evaluation of potential solar-industrial-process-heat applications for federal buildings in Texas

The potential for solr process heat applications for federal buildings in Texas is assessed. The three sites considered are Reese Air Force Base, Lubbock; Fort Bliss, El Paso; and Dyess Air Force Base, Abilene. The application at Lubbock is an electroplating and descaling facility for aircraft maintenance. The one at El Paso is a laundry facility. The Abilene system would use solar heat to preheat boiler feedwater makeup for the base hospital boiler plant. The Lubbock site is found to be the most appropriate one for a demonstration plant, with the Abilene site as an alternate. The processes at each site are described. A preliminary evaluation of the potential contribution by solar energy to the electroplating facility at Reese AFB is included. (LEW)
Date: September 30, 1980
Creator: Branz, Michael A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Consultation draft: Site characterization plan overview, Deaf Smith County Site, Texas: Nuclear Waste Policy Act (Section 113) (open access)

Consultation draft: Site characterization plan overview, Deaf Smith County Site, Texas: Nuclear Waste Policy Act (Section 113)

The Department of Energy (DOE) is preparing a site characterization plan for the candidate site in Deaf Smith County, Texas. The DOE has provided, for information and review, a consultation draft of the plan to the State of Texas and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The site characterization plan is a lengthy document that describes in considerable detail the program that will be conducted to characterize the geologic, hydrologic, and other conditions relevant to the suitability of the site for a repository. The overview presented here consists of brief summaries of important topics covered in the consultation draft of the site characterization plan; it is not a substitute for the site characterization plan. The arrangement of the overview is similar to that of the plan itself, with brief descriptions of the repository system - the site, the repository, and the waste package - preceding the discussion of the characterization program to be carried out at the Deaf Smith County site. It is intended primarily for the management staff of organizations involved in the DOE's repository program or other persons who might wish to understand the general scope of the site-characterization program, the activities to be conducted, and the facilities to …
Date: January 1, 1988
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clay mineralogy and depositional history of the Frio Formation in two geopressured wells, Brazoria County, Texas (open access)

Clay mineralogy and depositional history of the Frio Formation in two geopressured wells, Brazoria County, Texas

Twenty-three shale samples ranging in depth from 5194 ft to 13,246 ft from Gulf Oil Corporation No. 2 Texas State Lease 53034 well and 33 shale samples ranging in depth from 2185 ft to 15,592 ft from General Crude Oil Company/Department of Energy No. 1 Pleasant Bayou well were examined by x-ray techniques to determine the mineralogy of the geopressured zone in the Brazoria Fairway. Both wells have similar weight-percent trends with depth for a portion of the mineralogy. Calcite decreases, and plagioclase, quartz and total clay increase slightly. Within the clays, illite in mixed-layer illite/smectite (I/S) increases and smectite in mixed-layer I/S decreases. Four minerals have distinctly different trends with depth for each well. In the No. 2 Texas State Lease 53034 well, potassium feldspar and mixed-layer I/S decrease, kaolinite increases, and discrete illite is constant. In the No. 1 Pleasant Bayou well, potassium feldspar and kaolinite are constant, mixed-layer I/S increases, and discrete illite decreases.
Date: January 1, 1982
Creator: Freed, R.L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental assessment: Deaf Smith County site, Texas, Volume I (open access)

Environmental assessment: Deaf Smith County site, Texas, Volume I

In February 1983, the US Department of Energy (DOE) identified a location in Deaf Smith County, Texas, as one of nine potentially acceptable sites for a mined geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. To determine their suitability, the Deaf Smith County site and the eight other potentially sites have been evaluated in accordance with the DOE's General Guidelines for the Recommendation of Sites for the Nuclear Waste Repositories. The Deaf Smith County site is in the Permian Basin, which is one of five distinct geohydrologic settings considered for the first repository. On the basis of the evaluations reported in this EA, the DOE has found that the Deaf Smith County site is not disqualified under the guidelines. On the basis of these findings, the DOE is nominating the Deaf Smith County site as one of the five sites suitable for characterization. 591 refs., 147 figs., 173 tabs.
Date: May 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental assessment, Deaf Smith County site, Texas Volume II (open access)

Environmental assessment, Deaf Smith County site, Texas Volume II

The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 USC sections 10101-10226) requires the environmental assessment of a proposed site to include a statement of the basis for nominating a site as suitable for characterization. Volume 2 provides a detailed statement evaluating the site suitability of the Deaf Smith County Site under DOE siting guidelines, as well as a comparison of the Deaf Smith County Site to the other sites under consideration. The evaluation of the Deaf Smith County Site is based on the impacts associated with the reference repository design, but the evaluation will not change if based on the Mission Plan repository concept. The second part of this document compares the Deaf Smith County Site to Davis Canyon, Hanford, Richton Dome and Yucca Mountain. This comparison is required under DOE guidelines and is not intended to directly support subsequent recommendation of three sites for characterization as candidate sites. 259 refs., 29 figs., 66 refs. (MHB)
Date: May 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental assessment: Deaf Smith County site, Texas Volume III (open access)

Environmental assessment: Deaf Smith County site, Texas Volume III

In February 1983, the US Department of Energy (DOE) identified a location in Deaf Smith County, Texas, as one of the nine potentially acceptable sites for mined geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. To determine their suitability, the Deaf Smith County site and eight other potentially acceptable sites have been evaluated in accordance with the DOE's General Guidelines for the Recommendation of Sites for the Nuclear Waste Repositories. The Deaf Smith County site is in the Permian Basin, which is one of five distinct geohydrologic settings considered for the first repository. On the basis of the evaluations reported in this EA, the DOE has found that the Deaf Smith County site is not disqualified under the guidelines.
Date: May 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental assessment overview, Deaf Smith County site, Texas (open access)

Environmental assessment overview, Deaf Smith County site, Texas

In February 1983, the US Department of Energy (DOE) identified a location in Deaf Smith County, Texas, as one of nine potentially acceptable sites for mined geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. To determine their suitability, the Deaf Smith County site and eight other potentially acceptable sites have been evaluated in accordance with the DOE's General Guidelines for the Recommendation of Sites for the Nuclear Waste Repositories. The Deaf Smith County site is in the Permian Basin, which is one of five distinct geohydrologic settings considered for the first repository. On the basis of the evaluations reported in this EA, the DOE has found that the Deaf Smith County site is not disqualified under the guidelines. On the basis of these findings, the DOE is nominating the Deaf Smith County site as one of five sites suitable for characterization. 3 figs.
Date: May 1986
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents: 1987 (open access)

Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents: 1987

This report provides information on motor vehicle accidents in Texas during 1987.
Date: 1987~
Creator: Texas. Department of Public Safety.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents: 1988 (open access)

Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents: 1988

This report provides information on motor vehicle accidents in Texas during 1988.
Date: 1988~
Creator: Texas. Department of Public Safety.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents: 1989 (open access)

Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents: 1989

This report provides information on motor vehicle accidents in Texas during 1989.
Date: 1989~
Creator: Texas. Department of Public Safety.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents: 1986 (open access)

Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents: 1986

This report provides information on motor vehicle accidents in Texas during 1986.
Date: 1986~
Creator: Texas. Department of Public Safety.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
TACB Bulletin, Number 3, December 28, 1988 (open access)

TACB Bulletin, Number 3, December 28, 1988

Newsletter of the Texas Air Control Board including information about the Board as well as news, events, and other relevant information related to air quality in Texas.
Date: December 28, 1988
Creator: Texas Air Control Board
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
First order leveling: Pleasant Bayou geothermal test site, Brazoria County, Texas (open access)

First order leveling: Pleasant Bayou geothermal test site, Brazoria County, Texas

First order leveling to be conducted as part of an environmental monitoring program for a geopressured test well was reported. 39.43 kilometers of first order levels were run to NGS specifications. Twelve Class B type bench marks were set to NGS specifications. The adjusted elevation of bench mark C-1209 was used as a starting elevation and is based on a supplementary adjustment of April 6, 1979 by NGS. The closure for the loop around the well site is -0.65 millimeters. The distance around the loop is 1.29 kilometers, the allowable error of closure was 4.54 millimeters. The initial leveling of this well was performed in 1977. A thorough search for their monumentation was conducted. No monuments were found due to the lack of adequate monument descriptions. Therefore, an elevation comparison summary for this report is only available along the NGS lines outside the well area. The first order level tie to line No. 101 (BMA-1208) was +3.37 millimeters in 17.21 kilometers. The allowable error of closure was 12.44 millimeters.
Date: October 1, 1984
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
TACB Bulletin, Number 1, January/February 1986 (open access)

TACB Bulletin, Number 1, January/February 1986

Newsletter of the Texas Air Control Board including information about the Board as well as news, events, and other relevant information related to air quality in Texas.
Date: 1986-01/1986-02
Creator: Texas Air Control Board
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
TACB Bulletin, Number 4, October 31, 1986 (open access)

TACB Bulletin, Number 4, October 31, 1986

Newsletter of the Texas Air Control Board including information about the Board as well as news, events, and other relevant information related to air quality in Texas.
Date: October 31, 1986
Creator: Texas Air Control Board
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
TACB Bulletin, Number 2, April 30, 1987 (open access)

TACB Bulletin, Number 2, April 30, 1987

Newsletter of the Texas Air Control Board including information about the Board as well as news, events, and other relevant information related to air quality in Texas.
Date: April 30, 1987
Creator: Texas Air Control Board
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
TACB Bulletin, Number 1, May 30, 1989 (open access)

TACB Bulletin, Number 1, May 30, 1989

Newsletter of the Texas Air Control Board including information about the Board as well as news, events, and other relevant information related to air quality in Texas.
Date: May 30, 1989
Creator: Texas Air Control Board
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
TACB Bulletin, Number 3, July 6, 1987 (open access)

TACB Bulletin, Number 3, July 6, 1987

Newsletter of the Texas Air Control Board including information about the Board as well as news, events, and other relevant information related to air quality in Texas.
Date: July 6, 1987
Creator: Texas Air Control Board
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
1978 Houston-Galveston and Texas Gulf Coast vertical-control surveys (open access)

1978 Houston-Galveston and Texas Gulf Coast vertical-control surveys

Comparisons between leveling surveys of different epochs are used to determine vertical displacement of permanent bench marks. Displacement of bench marks usually represents the movement of the surrounding area. In this report, the 1978 Houston-Galveston and Texas Gulf Coast releveling surveys are compared to the 1963, 1973, and 1976 releveling results. The changes in elevations of bench marks common to two or more epochs are tabulated and plotted in Appendix A. From these differences, contour maps were prepared for the 1963 to 1978 and 1973 to 1978 epochs in the 2/sup 0/ x 2/sup 0/ area of maximum subsidence. Annual subsidence rates computed for the 1973 to 1978 period are about 25% less in the maximum subsidence area than the rates computed for the 1963 to 1973 period.
Date: November 1, 1980
Creator: Balazs, E. I.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
TACB Bulletin, Number 4, October 9, 1987 (open access)

TACB Bulletin, Number 4, October 9, 1987

Newsletter of the Texas Air Control Board including information about the Board as well as news, events, and other relevant information related to air quality in Texas.
Date: October 9, 1987
Creator: Texas Air Control Board
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
TACB Bulletin, Number 2, August 30, 1989 (open access)

TACB Bulletin, Number 2, August 30, 1989

Newsletter of the Texas Air Control Board including information about the Board as well as news, events, and other relevant information related to air quality in Texas.
Date: August 30, 1989
Creator: Texas Air Control Board
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
TACB Bulletin, Number 2, March/April 1986 (open access)

TACB Bulletin, Number 2, March/April 1986

Newsletter of the Texas Air Control Board including information about the Board as well as news, events, and other relevant information related to air quality in Texas.
Date: 1986-03/1986-04
Creator: Texas Air Control Board
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History