Geological Survey Investigations in the U12e.05 Tunnel, Nevada Test Site (open access)

Geological Survey Investigations in the U12e.05 Tunnel, Nevada Test Site

From introduction: The papers comprising the various parts of this report contain the preliminary results of the U. S. Geological Survey investigations in the Ul2e.05 tunnel at the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada (fig. 1). Reports on electrical resistivity, natural radioactivity, and heat required to raise the rocks to 100C will be issued later. A preliminary report on the geologic effects of the Blanca event is being prepared.
Date: February 1959
Creator: Diment, William H.; Wilmarth, V. R.; Houser, F. N.; Dickey, D. D.; Hinrichs, E. Neal; Botinelly, Theodore et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geological Survey Investigations in the U12b.01 Tunnel, Nevada Test Site (open access)

Geological Survey Investigations in the U12b.01 Tunnel, Nevada Test Site

From introduction: This report includes a brief description of the stratigraphy and structure, and data on petrology, mineralogy, and chemical and physical properties of the rocks that are exposed in the U12b.01 tunnel of the U12b (Rainier) tunnel system.
Date: March 1959
Creator: Diment, William H.; Wilmarth, V. R.; McKeown, F. A.; Dickey, D. D.; Botinelly, Theodore; Hinrichs, E. Neal et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the Marble Exploration Hole 4, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada (open access)

Geology of the Marble Exploration Hole 4, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada

From introduction: This report summarizes the information obtained during preparation of the lithologic log of the core and presents results of chemical analyses of marble samples collected from surface near the drill hole. The report was prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey on behalf of the Albuquerque Operations Office, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Date: October 1959
Creator: McKeown, F. A. & Wilmarth, V. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engineering Geology of Test Sites in Granite and Dolomite at Gold Meadows, Climax, and Dolomite Hill, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada: Preliminary Report (open access)

Engineering Geology of Test Sites in Granite and Dolomite at Gold Meadows, Climax, and Dolomite Hill, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada: Preliminary Report

From introduction: This report is a summary of the detailed geologic and engineering information that is available on three sites for underground explosions on the Nevada Test Site.
Date: February 1959
Creator: Gibbons, Anthony B.; Hinrichs, E. Neal; Dickey, D. D.; McKeown, F. A.; Poole, F. G. & Houser, F. N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigation of Radioactivity in the Yerington Copper Mine, Lyon County, Nevada (open access)

Investigation of Radioactivity in the Yerington Copper Mine, Lyon County, Nevada

From abstract: A reconnaissance radioactivity survey of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company open-pit copper mine at Yerington, Nevada, was made in October 1953 to investigate the reported occurrence on one of the mine dumps of rock containing 0.022 percent uranium.
Date: June 1955
Creator: Taylor, A. O. & Powers, J. F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Granite" Exploration Hole, Area 15, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada -- Interim Report: Part A, Structural, Petrographic, and Chemical Data (open access)

"Granite" Exploration Hole, Area 15, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada -- Interim Report: Part A, Structural, Petrographic, and Chemical Data

From introduction: The "Granite" exploration hole was core drilled to determine the character of the igneous rocks from the surface to a depth of 1,200 feet and the degree of structural anisotropism of the rock within 200 feet of a point 950 feet below the surface. This report summarizes the data on the structure, chemistry, petrology and alteration of the rocks exposed at the surface in the immediate vicinity of the drill site and in the core.
Date: July 1959
Creator: Houser, F. N. & Poole, F. G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geological Survey Investigations in the U12b.02 Tunnel, Nevada Test Site (open access)

Geological Survey Investigations in the U12b.02 Tunnel, Nevada Test Site

From introduction: The papers comprising the various parts of this report contain the preliminary results of the U. S. Geological Survey investigations in the U12b.02 tunnel at the Nevada Test Site.
Date: October 1958
Creator: Diment, William H.; Wilmarth, V. R.; McKeown, F. A.; Dickey, D. D.; Wilcox, R. E.; Botinelly, Theodore et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Virgin Valley Opal District, Humboldt County, Nevada (open access)

Virgin Valley Opal District, Humboldt County, Nevada

From abstract: Numerous discontinuous layers of opal are interbedded with a gently-dipping series of vitric tuff and ash which is at least 300 feet thick. The tuff and ash are capped by a dark, vesicular basalt in the eastern part of the area and by a thin layer of terrace gravels in the area along the west side of Virgin Valley.
Date: May 1951
Creator: Staatz, Mortimer Hay & Bauer, Herman L., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary of Preliminary Results of Field Studies in 1952 in the Goose Creek District, Cassia County, Idaho, Boxelder County, Utah, and Elko County, Nevada (open access)

Summary of Preliminary Results of Field Studies in 1952 in the Goose Creek District, Cassia County, Idaho, Boxelder County, Utah, and Elko County, Nevada

From introduction: This report summarizes the results of detailed mapping and sampling completed during 1952 with particular reference to an area of about 60 square miles in T. 16 S. , R. 21 E. , Cassia County, Idaho, and parts of adjacent townships in Idaho, Utah, and Nevada. It supplements an earlier report based on reconnaissance stttdies in the Goose Creek district in 1951 (Hail and Gill, 1953).
Date: 1953?
Creator: Mapel, W. J. & Hail, William James, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Maximum Accelerators Caused by Underground Nuclear Explosions in the Oak Spring Formation in Area 12 of the Nevada Test Site at Distances of 5 to 300 Kilometers: a Preliminary Summary (open access)

Maximum Accelerators Caused by Underground Nuclear Explosions in the Oak Spring Formation in Area 12 of the Nevada Test Site at Distances of 5 to 300 Kilometers: a Preliminary Summary

From introduction: The results presented in this preliminary report are principally concerned with the ground motion caused by seven underground nuclear explosions (table 1) in the bedded tuff of the Oak Spring formation in Area 12. Ground motions were recorded at stations as close as 5 kilometers and as far as 300 kilometers from the explosions (fig 1 and table 2). The results for the Bianca and especially the Evans explosion are meager because the first was accompanied by a Test Site-wide moznentary power failure and because the yield of the second was so far below the anticipated yield that uncertain results were obtained. Ground motions caused by most of the air explosions in Operations Plumbbob and Hadtack - Phase 2 were recorded and have been partly analyzed. Results are presented in this report only where they relate significantly to analysis of the underground explosions. The effects of most of the small underground explosions in Area 3 (center of Yucca Flat) that had significant yields were also recorded. The results have not yet been interpreted.
Date: January 1959
Creator: Stewart, S. W.; Roller, J. C. & Diment, William H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geologic Effects of the Rainier Underground Test: Preliminary Report (open access)

Geologic Effects of the Rainier Underground Test: Preliminary Report

From abstract: This report describes the Rainier underground test of September 19, 1957 conducted at the Nevada Test Site with a 1.7 kiloton nuclear device.
Date: April 1958
Creator: Gibbons, Anthony B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of Dolomite Hill, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada (open access)

Geology of Dolomite Hill, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada

From introduction: This report is a summary of geologic information obtained by the USGS at Dolomite Hill, Nevada.
Date: November 1959
Creator: Dickey, D. D. & McKeown, F. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary of Some Physical Data from Five Vertical Drill Holes Over the U12b.04 (Evans) Explosion Chamber, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada (open access)

Summary of Some Physical Data from Five Vertical Drill Holes Over the U12b.04 (Evans) Explosion Chamber, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada

From introduction: This report details the results of instrument recordings of a nuclear explosion where ground zero was near the top of Rainier Mesa.
Date: June 1959
Creator: Poole, Forrest G. & Roller, John C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Uranium, Tin, and Copper Deposits at Majuba Hill, Pershing County, Nevada (open access)

The Uranium, Tin, and Copper Deposits at Majuba Hill, Pershing County, Nevada

From abstract: Uranium is associated with copper and tin ores in the Majuba Hill area, Antelope mining district, in the central part of the Antelope Range, Pershing County, Nev. About 23, 000 tons of copper and 200 tons of tin ore, a small quantity of lead-silver ore, and some arsenic-silver ore have been produced from the Majuba Hill mine, the Last Chance mine, and a mine in sec. 34, T. 33 N., R. 31 E.
Date: December 1952
Creator: Thurston, Ralph H. & Trites, Albert F., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance Investigations for Uranium in Black Shale Deposits of the Western States during 1951 and 1952 (open access)

Reconnaissance Investigations for Uranium in Black Shale Deposits of the Western States during 1951 and 1952

Report discussing investigations seeking uranium in deposits of black shale around the geographical areas of the Western States
Date: September 1953
Creator: Duncan, Donald Cave
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Uranium, Tin, and Copper Deposits at Majuba Hill, Pershing County, Nevada (open access)

The Uranium, Tin, and Copper Deposits at Majuba Hill, Pershing County, Nevada

Report discussing the copper and tin ores of the Majuba Hill area of the Antelope mining district that are associated with uranium deposits.
Date: December 1952
Creator: Thurston, Ralph H. & Trites, Albert F., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Effects of Underground Nuclear Explosions on Tuff (open access)

Some Effects of Underground Nuclear Explosions on Tuff

The following report covers the effects of the Rainier, Logan, and Blanca explosions on tuff that were determined through observations and measurements on the surface and in drill holes and tunnels.
Date: December 1959
Creator: Wilmarth, Verl R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the USGS and Rainier Tunnel Areas, Nevada Test Site (open access)

Geology of the USGS and Rainier Tunnel Areas, Nevada Test Site

The following report covers geological studies on the USGS and Rainier tunnel areas in the Nevada Test Site.
Date: May 1957
Creator: Hansen, Wallace R. & Lemke, Richard W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uranium-Bearing Carbonaceous Shale and Lignite in the Goose Creek District, Cassia County, Idaho, Box Elder County, Utah, and Elko County, Nevada (open access)

Uranium-Bearing Carbonaceous Shale and Lignite in the Goose Creek District, Cassia County, Idaho, Box Elder County, Utah, and Elko County, Nevada

Report discussing deposits of uranium in beds of carbonaceous shale and lignite in the Goose Creek district. The highest concentrations of uranium were found in the central part of the Salt Lake formation.
Date: June 1953
Creator: Mapel, W. J. & Hail, W. J., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radioactive Deposits of Nevada (open access)

Radioactive Deposits of Nevada

Report discussing the U.S. Geological Survey's analysis of radioactive rocks collected from Nevada before 1952.
Date: July 1953
Creator: Lovering, T. G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tin, Copper, and Uranium at Majuba Hill, Nevada (open access)

Tin, Copper, and Uranium at Majuba Hill, Nevada

The following report summarizes the results of a brief geological examination made by the Geological Survey of the small uranium deposit in the Majuba Hill mine, Pershing County, Nevada.
Date: February 1950
Creator: Thurston, R. H. & Chace, F. M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Summary Interpretation of Geologic, Hydrologic, and Geophysical Data for Yucca Valley, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada (open access)

A Summary Interpretation of Geologic, Hydrologic, and Geophysical Data for Yucca Valley, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada

From scope of report: "This report summarizes an interpretation of the geology of Yucca Valley to depths of about 2,300 feet below the surface, the characteristic features of ground water in Yucca and Frenchman Valleys, and the seismic, gravity, and magnetic data for these valleys."
Date: January 1959
Creator: Wilmarth, V. R.; Healey, D. L.; Clebsch, Alfred, Jr.; Winograd, I. J.; Zietz, Isidore & Oliver, H. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconnaissance of Beryl-Bearing Pegmatites in the Ruby Mountains, Other Areas in Nevada, and Northwestern Mohave County, Arizona (open access)

Reconnaissance of Beryl-Bearing Pegmatites in the Ruby Mountains, Other Areas in Nevada, and Northwestern Mohave County, Arizona

The following report covers reconnaissance studies of beryl-bearing pegmatite discovered in Nevada and in part of Mohave County, Arizona.
Date: November 1957
Creator: Olson, Jerry C. & Hinrichs, E. Neal
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Permian Phosphorite Deposits of Western United States (open access)

The Permian Phosphorite Deposits of Western United States

Report describing the phosphorite deposits of the western United States with the objective of outlining features that are common to both the Kara Tau phosphorite deposits of Russia and the western United States deposits in an effort to define their origin.
Date: October 1952
Creator: McKelvey, V. E.; Swanson, R. W. & Sheldon, R. P.
System: The UNT Digital Library