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Title: Subsurface radar applications in the Delaware Basin. Final report, June 1, 1980-January 31, 1981. [To probe into potash bed]

Abstract

Purpose was to find a method of probing into potash to determine if dangers lie ahead. Of specific interest to Sandia, was the problem of outlining a breccia pipe which Mississippi Chemical Company (MCC) found protruded into the potash bed in Carlsbad, New Mexico, they were mining. MCC mined around it and continued their work. If, however, the discontinuity in the ore (breccia pipe) had any fractures linking with a high pressure water zone above the mining level, the act of mining into the pipe could have lost the mine to incoming water. Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. had this happen to them in their only salt mine in England. Chapter II discusses our attempts (unsuccessful) to probe through the potash ore and see the breccia pipe. Chapter III contains data on laboratory measurements of the complex electric permittivity (dielectric constant and loss tangent) of potash samples from MCC.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States); Texas A and M Univ., College Station (USA). Dept. of Geophysics
OSTI Identifier:
5235840
Report Number(s):
SAND-81-7153
ON: DE82007147; TRN: 82-014188
DOE Contract Number:  
AC04-76DP00789
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
58 GEOSCIENCES; 42 ENGINEERING; 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; SALT DEPOSITS; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; MINES; NEW MEXICO; ORES; PERMITTIVITY; POTASSIUM CARBONATES; RADAR; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; ROCKS; SIGNALS; UNDERGROUND; ALKALI METAL COMPOUNDS; CARBON COMPOUNDS; CARBONATES; ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; FEDERAL REGION VI; GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS; LEVELS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; NORTH AMERICA; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; RANGE FINDERS; SURVEYS; UNDERGROUND FACILITIES; USA; 580100* - Geology & Hydrology- (-1989); 422000 - Engineering- Mining & Underground Engineering- (1980-); 440400 - Well Logging Instrumentation; 052002 - Nuclear Fuels- Waste Disposal & Storage

Citation Formats

Unterberger, R. R. Subsurface radar applications in the Delaware Basin. Final report, June 1, 1980-January 31, 1981. [To probe into potash bed]. United States: N. p., 1981. Web. doi:10.2172/5235840.
Unterberger, R. R. Subsurface radar applications in the Delaware Basin. Final report, June 1, 1980-January 31, 1981. [To probe into potash bed]. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/5235840
Unterberger, R. R. 1981. "Subsurface radar applications in the Delaware Basin. Final report, June 1, 1980-January 31, 1981. [To probe into potash bed]". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/5235840. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5235840.
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title = {Subsurface radar applications in the Delaware Basin. Final report, June 1, 1980-January 31, 1981. [To probe into potash bed]},
author = {Unterberger, R. R.},
abstractNote = {Purpose was to find a method of probing into potash to determine if dangers lie ahead. Of specific interest to Sandia, was the problem of outlining a breccia pipe which Mississippi Chemical Company (MCC) found protruded into the potash bed in Carlsbad, New Mexico, they were mining. MCC mined around it and continued their work. If, however, the discontinuity in the ore (breccia pipe) had any fractures linking with a high pressure water zone above the mining level, the act of mining into the pipe could have lost the mine to incoming water. Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. had this happen to them in their only salt mine in England. Chapter II discusses our attempts (unsuccessful) to probe through the potash ore and see the breccia pipe. Chapter III contains data on laboratory measurements of the complex electric permittivity (dielectric constant and loss tangent) of potash samples from MCC.},
doi = {10.2172/5235840},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5235840}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1981},
month = {Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1981}
}