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Factors Affecting 14C Ages of Lacustrine Carbonates: Timing and Duration of the Last Highstand Lake in the Lahontan Basin
Two processes contribute to inaccurate 14C age estimates of carbonates precipitated within the Lahontan basin, NevadaCalifornia: low initial 14C/C ratios in lake water (reservoir effect) and addition of modern carbon to calcium carbonate after its precipitation. The mast reliable set of 14C ages on carbonates from elevations > 1310 m in the Pyramid and Walker Lake subbasins indicate that lakes in
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L. Benson
United States Geological Survey Yearbook, fiscal year 1991
The fiscal year 1991 Yearbook summarizes the activities of the U.S. Geological Survey in response to its scientific and regulatory missions.
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Sediment properties and water movement through shallow unsaturated alluvium at an arid site for disposal of low-level radioactive waste near Beatty, Nye County, Nevada
A commercial disposal facility for low-level radioactive waste has been in operation near Beatty, Nevada, since 1962. The facility is in the arid Amargosa Desert where wastes are buried in trenches excavated into unsaturated alluvial sediments. Thick unsaturated zones in arid environments offer many potential advantages for disposal of radioactive wastes, but little is known about the natural move
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Jeffrey M. Fischer
Selected meteorological data for an arid site near Beatty, Nye County, Nevada, calendar year 1989
Selected meteorological data were collected at a study site adjacent to a low-level radioactive-waste burial facility near Beatty, Nevada, for calendar year 1989. Data were collected in support of ongoing studies to estimate the potential for downward movement of radionuclides into the unsaturated sediments beneath waste-burial trenches at the facility. The data include air temperature, relative h
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J.L. Wood, Brian J. Andraski
Selected meteorological data for an arid site near Beatty, Nye County, Nevada, calendar year 1988
Selected meteorological data were collected at a study site adjacent to a low-level radioactive-waste burial facility near Beatty/ Nevada, for calendar year 1988. Data were collected in support of ongoing studies to estimate the potential for downward movement of radionuclides into the unsaturated sediments beneath waste-burial trenches at the facility. The data include air temperature, relative h
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James L. Wood, Kevin J. Hill, Brian J. Andraski
Selected meteorological data for an arid site near Beatty, Nye County, Nevada, calendar year 1987
Selected meteorological data were collected at a study site adjacent to a low-level radioactive-waste burial facility near Beatty, Nevada, for calendar year 1987. Data were collected in support of an ongoing study to estimate the potential for downward movement of radionuclides into the unsaturated sediments beneath waste-burial trenches at the facility. The data include air temperature, relative
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James L. Wood, Jeffrey M. Fischer
Lithologic properties of carbonate-rock aquifers at five test wells in the Coyote Spring Valley area, southern Nevada, as determined from geophysical logs
No abstract available.
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D.L. Berger
Geohydrologic reconnaissance of Lake Mead National Recreation Area — Virgin River, Nevada, to Grand Wash Cliffs, Arizona
No abstract available.
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J. T. Bales, R. L. Laney
Hydrologic and climatic data bases used to assess potential effects of climate change on water resources of American River, Carson River, and Truckee River basins, California-Nevada, and of Gunnison River basin, Colorado
No abstract available.
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M.H. August, J.M. Jacoboni, A.E. Jeton, R. S. Parker, Alex Pupacko, B. C. Ruddy, J. LaRue Smith, K.T. Redmond
Lake-size variations in the Lahontan and Bonneville basins between 13,000 and 9000 14C yr B.P
Recessions of Lakes Lahontan and Bonneville that commenced ???13,500 14C yr B.P. were interrupted at {slanted equal to or greater-than}11,500 14C yr B.P. in the Lahontan basin and ???12,200 14C yr B.P. in the Bonneville basin by relatively large perturbations in lake level that persisted for ??? 2000 years. Minor glacial readvances in the Sierra Nevada and White Mountains of California-Nevada occu
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L. Benson, D. Currey, Y. Lao, S. Hostetler
Beatty, Nevada: A section in U.S. Geological Survey research in radioactive waste disposal - Fiscal years 1986-1990 (WRI 91-4084)
A low-level radioactive-waste disposal facility in the Amargosa Desert of Nevada, about 17 km southeast of Beatty and 169 km northwest of Las Vegas, has been operating since 1962. This was the first commercially operated radioactive waste disposal facility in the United States. Wastes at the facility are emplaced in 2 to 15-m deep trenches and covered by backfilling with previously excavated mater
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Brian J. Andraski, Jeffrey M. Fisher, David E. Prudic
Changes in water levels and water quality in shallow ground water, Pittman-Henderson Area, Clark County, Nevada, resulting from diversion of industrial cooling water from ditch to pipeline in 1985
No abstract available.
Authors
C.L. Carlsen, R.C. Lunnis, David E. Prudic