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Title: Characterization of Quaternary and suspected Quaternary faults, Amargosa area, Nevada and California

Abstract

This report presents the results of geologic studies that help define the Quaternary history of selected faults in the region around Yucca Mountain, Nevada. These results are relevant to the seismic-design basis of a potential nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. The relevancy is based, in part, on a need for additional geologic data that became apparent in ongoing studies by S. Pezzopane (written commun., 1995) that resulted in the identification of 51 relevant and potentially relevant (see appendix A for definitions) individual and compound faults and fault zones in the 100-km-radius region around the Yucca Mountain site. These structures were divided into local and regional categories by Pezzopane (1995); this report deals with selected regional structures. In this introduction, the authors outline the scope and strategy of the studies and the tectonic environment of the studied structures.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
US Geological Survey, Denver, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
201748
Report Number(s):
USGS-OFR-95-613
ON: DE96007379; TRN: 96:008462
DOE Contract Number:  
AI08-92NV10874
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 1995
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
05 NUCLEAR FUELS; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; GEOLOGIC FAULTS; MAPPING; DISPLACEMENT RATES; AGE ESTIMATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; YUCCA MOUNTAIN; GEOLOGIC HISTORY

Citation Formats

Anderson, R E, Crone, A J, Machette, M N, Bradley, L A, and Diehl, S F. Characterization of Quaternary and suspected Quaternary faults, Amargosa area, Nevada and California. United States: N. p., 1995. Web. doi:10.2172/201748.
Anderson, R E, Crone, A J, Machette, M N, Bradley, L A, & Diehl, S F. Characterization of Quaternary and suspected Quaternary faults, Amargosa area, Nevada and California. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/201748
Anderson, R E, Crone, A J, Machette, M N, Bradley, L A, and Diehl, S F. 1995. "Characterization of Quaternary and suspected Quaternary faults, Amargosa area, Nevada and California". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/201748. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/201748.
@article{osti_201748,
title = {Characterization of Quaternary and suspected Quaternary faults, Amargosa area, Nevada and California},
author = {Anderson, R E and Crone, A J and Machette, M N and Bradley, L A and Diehl, S F},
abstractNote = {This report presents the results of geologic studies that help define the Quaternary history of selected faults in the region around Yucca Mountain, Nevada. These results are relevant to the seismic-design basis of a potential nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. The relevancy is based, in part, on a need for additional geologic data that became apparent in ongoing studies by S. Pezzopane (written commun., 1995) that resulted in the identification of 51 relevant and potentially relevant (see appendix A for definitions) individual and compound faults and fault zones in the 100-km-radius region around the Yucca Mountain site. These structures were divided into local and regional categories by Pezzopane (1995); this report deals with selected regional structures. In this introduction, the authors outline the scope and strategy of the studies and the tectonic environment of the studied structures.},
doi = {10.2172/201748},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/201748}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1995},
month = {Sun Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1995}
}