Uranium in the Phillips Mine-Camp Smith Area, Putnam and Westchester Counties, New York (open access)

Uranium in the Phillips Mine-Camp Smith Area, Putnam and Westchester Counties, New York

Abstract: Uraniferous rock was discovered in the Phillips mine-Camp Smith area in 1953. Precambrian rocks of the Hudson Highlands of the New England physiographic province underlie the area.
Date: January 1957
Creator: Klemic, Harry; Eric, John H.; McNitt, James R. & McKeown, Frank A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Selected Annotated Bibliography of the Geology of Sandstone-Type Uranium Deposits in the United States (open access)

Selected Annotated Bibliography of the Geology of Sandstone-Type Uranium Deposits in the United States

From introduction: This report concerns work done by the Geological Survey on behalf of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission concerning sandstone-type uranium deposits.
Date: December 1955
Creator: Melin, Robert E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology and Mineralogy of the J.J. Mine, Jo Dandy Area, Montrose County, Colorado (open access)

Geology and Mineralogy of the J.J. Mine, Jo Dandy Area, Montrose County, Colorado

Introduction: Detailed geologic mine mapping and sampling of the J.J. mine in the Jo dandy area, Montrose County, Colo., were undertaken to study a vanadium-uranium ore body in terms of the physical relationships of ore to host rock, the paragenetic sequence of ore minerals, and the sequential development of an oxidized suite of ore minerals from unoxidized ore.
Date: September 1955
Creator: Elston, Donald Parker & Botinelly, Theodore
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Selected Annotated Bibliography and Index Map of Thorium and Rare-Earth Deposits in the United States and Alaska (open access)

Selected Annotated Bibliography and Index Map of Thorium and Rare-Earth Deposits in the United States and Alaska

Introduction: Thorium and rare-earth metals have come into strategic importance in this country in the last few years with the potential use of thorium in the production of atomic power and the development of new uses for the rare earths in the aircraft industry.
Date: July 1955
Creator: Buck, Katharine L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Selected Annotated Bibliography of the Uranium Geology of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks in the United States and Territories (open access)

Selected Annotated Bibliography of the Uranium Geology of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks in the United States and Territories

From introduction: This bibliography is an annotated list of selected reports that were publicly available as of May 31, 1956, pertaining to the uranium content and/or radioactivity of igneous and metamorphic rocks and minerals in the United States.
Date: July 1956
Creator: Curtis, Diane
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Selected Annotated Bibliography of the Geology and Occurrence of Uranium-Bearing Marine Black Shales in the United States (open access)

Selected Annotated Bibliography of the Geology and Occurrence of Uranium-Bearing Marine Black Shales in the United States

From introduction: This bibliography consists of annotations or abstracts of selected reports that pertain to the geology and occurrence of uranium in marine black shales and their metamorphic equivalents in the United States.
Date: November 1956
Creator: Fix, Carolyn E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Selected Annotated Bibliography of the Geology of Uraniferous and Radioactive Native Bituminous Substances, Exclusive of Coals, in the United States (open access)

Selected Annotated Bibliography of the Geology of Uraniferous and Radioactive Native Bituminous Substances, Exclusive of Coals, in the United States

Introduction: In this bibliography emphasis is placed on reports dealing with the uranium contents and radioactivity of native bituminous substances rather than on mineralogical and chemical studies of these substances.
Date: November 1956
Creator: Jones, Harriet Nell
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ground Water Test Well C, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada : a Summary of Lithologic Data, Aquifer Tests, and Well Construction (open access)

Ground Water Test Well C, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada : a Summary of Lithologic Data, Aquifer Tests, and Well Construction

From introduction: USGS is appraising the possibility, however slight, that the ground water beneath the Nevada Test Site, possibly contaminated by nuclear detonations, may carry radioactive fission products to places where they may constitute a public hazard.
Date: 1962
Creator: Garber, M. S. & Thordarson, William
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the Powder River Basin, Wyoming and Montana with Reference to Subsurface Disposal of Radioactive Wastes (open access)

Geology of the Powder River Basin, Wyoming and Montana with Reference to Subsurface Disposal of Radioactive Wastes

From introduction: This report on the geology of the Powder River Basin is one of a series of reports by the Geological Survey on sedimentary basins in the United States.
Date: February 1962
Creator: Beikman, Helen M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tritium Used as a Ground-Water Tracer Between Lake McMillan and Major Johnson Springs, Eddy County, New Mexico (open access)

Tritium Used as a Ground-Water Tracer Between Lake McMillan and Major Johnson Springs, Eddy County, New Mexico

Abstract: A large amount of water leaks through the floor of Lake McMillan to underground solution channels or openings in the gypsiferous Seven Rivers Formation.
Date: June 1963
Creator: Reeder, Harold O. & Thatcher, L. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the Pluto Site, Area 401, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada (open access)

Geology of the Pluto Site, Area 401, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada

Introduction: Geologic studies by the U.S. Geological Survey in support of the U.S. Air Force's Project Pluto in Area 401 of the Nevada Test Site were made on behalf of the U.S. Atomic energy Commission.
Date: April 1964
Creator: Johnson, Ross B. & Ege, John R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geologic Map of the Timber Mountain Quadrangle, Nye County, Nevada (open access)

Geologic Map of the Timber Mountain Quadrangle, Nye County, Nevada

Map of the Timber Mountain Quadrangle in Nye County, Nevada.
Date: September 1964
Creator: Carr, Wilfred James & Quinlivan, W. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geologic Map of the Mine Mountain Quadrangle, Nye County, Nevada (open access)

Geologic Map of the Mine Mountain Quadrangle, Nye County, Nevada

Map of the Mine Mountain Quadrangle in Nye County, Nevada.
Date: October 1964
Creator: Orkild, Paul P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perched Ground Water in Zeolitized-Bedded Tuff, Rainier Mesa and Vicinity, Nevada Test Site, Nevada (open access)

Perched Ground Water in Zeolitized-Bedded Tuff, Rainier Mesa and Vicinity, Nevada Test Site, Nevada

Introduction: This report describes the occurrence, movement, and discharge of perched ground water in tuffaceous rocks that cap and underlie Rainier Mesa -- the site of the first series of underground nuclear detonations made by the Atomic Energy Commission at the Nevada Test Site.
Date: 1965
Creator: Thordarson, William
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ground Water Test Well D, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada (open access)

Ground Water Test Well D, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada

Introduction: The U.S. Geological Survey is appraising the possibility, however slight, that the ground water beneath the Nevada Test Site, possibly contaminated by nuclear detonations, may carry radioactive fission products to places where they may constitute a public hazard.
Date: February 9, 1962
Creator: Thordarson, William; Garber, M. S. & Walker, George E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ground-Water Test Well B, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada: A Summary of Lithologic Data, Aquifer Tests, and Well Construction (open access)

Ground-Water Test Well B, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada: A Summary of Lithologic Data, Aquifer Tests, and Well Construction

Abstract: Geophysical logs, a summary of contract costs, detailed descriptions of drilling, casing, cementing, and hydraulic testing operations, X-ray mineralogical analyses, physical property analyses, and a detailed lithologic log are presented in the report.
Date: April 1962
Creator: Moore, John E. & Garber, M. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the Williston Basin, North Dakota, Montana, and South Dakota, with Reference to Subsurface Disposal of Radioactive Wastes (open access)

Geology of the Williston Basin, North Dakota, Montana, and South Dakota, with Reference to Subsurface Disposal of Radioactive Wastes

From introduction: This report evaluates four possible types of subsurface reservoirs for radioactive wastes in the Williston basin.
Date: June 1962
Creator: Sandberg, Charles A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Anadarko Basin (of parts of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Colorado) (open access)

The Anadarko Basin (of parts of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Colorado)

Abstract: This report is a synthesis of published and unpublished data on the rocks of the Anadarko basin.
Date: March 1964
Creator: MacLachlan, M. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gamma-Radioactivity Investigations at the Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada: Interim Report, February 1960 to July 1961 (open access)

Gamma-Radioactivity Investigations at the Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada: Interim Report, February 1960 to July 1961

Abstract: As a part of continuous geologic and geophysical investigations at the Nevada Test Site, gamma-radioactivity measurements are being made in tunnels and drill holes to determine semiquantitatively the natural gamma radioactivity of geologic formations and the distribution of nuclear-explosion-produced radioisotopes.
Date: October 1962
Creator: Bunker, Carl M. & Shutler, Marvin D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interim Geological Investigations in the U12e.07 Tunnel, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada (open access)

Interim Geological Investigations in the U12e.07 Tunnel, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada

From abstract: This report is on the geologic studies in the U12e.07 tunnel for the purpose of determining the structural features, lithographic character, chemical composition, and physical properties of the tuff exposed in the tunnel.
Date: April 1963
Creator: Hasler, J. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ground-Water Test Well 2, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada: A Summary of Lithologic Data, Aquifer Tests, and Well Construction (open access)

Ground-Water Test Well 2, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada: A Summary of Lithologic Data, Aquifer Tests, and Well Construction

Abstract: Ground-water test well 2 was drilled to a depth of 3,422 feet with rotary and cable tool drilling equipment.
Date: July 18, 1963
Creator: Moore, John E.; Doyle, Alan C.; Walker, George E.; Young, Richard A. & Carroll, Roderick D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chemistry and Movement of Ground Water, Nevada Test Site (open access)

Chemistry and Movement of Ground Water, Nevada Test Site

Introduction: The chemical character of ground water depends to a large degree upon the character of the rock formations through which the water moves. The composition of the water is the result of several solutional and decompositional processes.
Date: May 20, 1964
Creator: Schoff, Stuart L. & Moore, John E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regional Hydrology of a Part of Southern Nevada: a Reconnaissance (open access)

Regional Hydrology of a Part of Southern Nevada: a Reconnaissance

From introduction: This report summarizes the available hydrologic information for a part of Nevada surrounding the Nevada Test Site. It emphasizes the possibility that ground water may move from one basin to another, whereas the usual concept heretofore has been that the ground water of the region generally occurs in basins that are closed or nearly closed.
Date: July 1963
Creator: Eakin, Thomas E.; Schoff, Stuart L. & Cohen, Philip
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Summary of the Ground-Water Hydrology of the Area Between the Las Vegas Valley and the Amargosa Desert, Nevada: with Special Reference to the Effects of Possible New Withdrawals of Ground Water (open access)

A Summary of the Ground-Water Hydrology of the Area Between the Las Vegas Valley and the Amargosa Desert, Nevada: with Special Reference to the Effects of Possible New Withdrawals of Ground Water

Introduction: The United States Atomic Energy Commission is considering the establishment of a townsite in the vicinity of Mercury, Nevada, to facilitate operations at the Nuclear Rocket Development Station on the Nevada Test Site.
Date: September 1963
Creator: Winograd, Isaac Judah
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library