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20-ton HE Cratering Experiments in Desert Alluvium: Final Report, May 1962 (open access)

20-ton HE Cratering Experiments in Desert Alluvium: Final Report, May 1962

From abstract and summary: Project Stagecoach consisted of the detonation of three 40,000-pound charges. Blocks of cast TNT were stacked to resemble a sphere and, the whole center-detonated.
Date: March 1960
Creator: Vortman, Luke J. & MacDougall, H. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Fallout Doses from Nevada Tests (Revised) (open access)

Comparison of Fallout Doses from Nevada Tests (Revised)

From abstract: Many residents of the Nevada area carried film badge radiation dosimeters during Operation Plumbbob in 1957. Badge readings in specific localities appear to follow the logarithmic-normal distribution.
Date: June 1960
Creator: Reed, Jack W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estimating Safety Probabilities from Fallout Forecasts for Nevada Test Site (open access)

Estimating Safety Probabilities from Fallout Forecasts for Nevada Test Site

Abstract: "Available data on wind persistence and wind forecasting capability have been applied in estimating the probability of a fallout pattern shifting from an uninhabited safe sector into a populated region. Safety probability is computed from win variability, forecasting accuracy, initial height and particle size of radioactivity landing at a point in the predicted fallout pattern, predicted wind speed, length of forecast period, and safe-sector angular width."
Date: July 1, 1960
Creator: Reed, Jack W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geologic Reconnaissance of the Topopah Spring and Timber Mountain Quandrangles, Nye County, Nevada (open access)

Geologic Reconnaissance of the Topopah Spring and Timber Mountain Quandrangles, Nye County, Nevada

The Topopah Spring and Timber Mountain 15-minute quadrangles comprising about 500 square miles in southern Nye County, Nev., are bounded by longitudes 116°15' W. and 116°30' W. and by latitudes 36°45' N. and 37°15' N. (fig. 1) The quadrangles are mostly within the Nevada Test Site and are approximately 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas (fig. 1). Lathrop Wells, the nearest town, is about 10 miles south of the southern boundary of the Topopah Spring quadrangle.
Date: May 1960
Creator: Orkild, Paul P. & Pomeroy, John S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interim Report on Geologic Investigations of the U12e Tunnel System, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada (open access)

Interim Report on Geologic Investigations of the U12e Tunnel System, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada

From introduction: The maps and tables comprising this report are being transmitted at this time to provide interested users with a summary of the geology of the Ul2e tunnel system. The system was constructed to provide access to underground test sites. This report contains part of the geologic information obtained from investigations conducted by the U. S. Geological Survey to determine the geologic environment of the underground test sites. Results of geophysical and radiometric surveys, and physical properties are being studied. This work was done on behalf of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Date: September 1960
Creator: McKeown, F. A. & Dickey, D. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Geologic Map of the Tippipah Spring NW Quadrangle, Nye County Nevada (open access)

Preliminary Geologic Map of the Tippipah Spring NW Quadrangle, Nye County Nevada

This is a preliminary geologic map of a section of the Nevada Test Site.
Date: 1960
Creator: Gibbons, Anthony B.; Hinrichs, E. Neal; Hansen, Wallace R. & Lemke, Richard W.
System: The UNT Digital Library