Thickness of surficial sediment at and near the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho
Thickness of surficial sediment was determined from natural-gamma logs in 333 wells at and near the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory in eastern Idaho to provide reconnaissance data for future site-characterization studies. Surficial sediment, which is defined as the unconsolidated clay, silt, sand, and gravel that overlie the uppermost basalt flow at each well, ranges in thickness from 0 feet in seven wells drilled through basalt outcrops east of the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant to 313 feet in well Site 14 southeast of the Big Lost River sinks. Surficial sediment includes alluvial, lacustrine, eolian, and colluvial deposits that generally accumulated during the past 200 thousand years. Additional thickness data, not included in this report, are available from numerous auger holes and foundation borings at and near most facilities.
- Research Organization:
- Geological Survey, Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); Department of the Interior, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 273789
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ID-22128; ON: DE96014158; NC: NONE; TRN: 96:017760
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Jun 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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