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
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
Isopach Mapping by Photogeologic Methods as an Aid in the Location of Swales and Channels in the Monument Valley Area, Arizona (open access)

Isopach Mapping by Photogeologic Methods as an Aid in the Location of Swales and Channels in the Monument Valley Area, Arizona

Report discussing the mapping of the Monument Valley area in Arizona in order to locate uranium-vanadium deposits, which were localized in strata of the Shinarump member of the Chinle formation of Triassic age that fill ancient scour channels.
Date: February 1959
Creator: Witkind, Irving J.; Hemphill, William R.; Pillmore, Charles L. & Morris, Robert H.
System: The UNT Digital Library