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Title: Geology and geohydrology of the Palo Duro Basin, Texas Panhandle. Report on the progress of nuclear waste isolation feasibility studies, 1979

Abstract

Since early 1977, the Bureau of Economic Geology has been evaluating several salt-bearing basins within the State of Texas as part of the national nuclear repository program. The Bureau, a research unit of The University of Texas at Austin and the State of Texas, is carrying out a long-term program to gather and interpret all geologic and hydrologic information necessary for description, delineation, and evaluation of salt-bearing strata in the Palo Duro and Dalhart Basins of the Texas Panhandle. The program in FY 79 has been subdivided into four broad research tasks, which are addressed by a basin analysis group, a surface studies group, a geohydrology group, and a host-rock analysis group. The basin analysis group has delineated the structural and stratigraphic framework of the basins, initiated natural resource assessment, and integrated data from 8000 ft (2400 m) of core material into salt-stratigraphy models. Salt depth and thickness have been delineated for seven salt-bearing stratigraphic units. Concurrently, the surface studies group has collected ground and remotely sensed data to describe surficial processes, including salt solution, slope retreat/erosion mechanisms, geomorphic evolution, and fracture system development. The basin geohydrology group has begun evaluating both shallow and deep fluid circulation within the basins.more » The newly formed host-rock analysis group has initiated study of cores from two drilling sites for analysis of salt and the various lithologies overlying and interbedded with salt units. This paper, a summary report of progress in FY 79, presents principal conclusions and reviews methods used and types of data and maps generated.« less

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Texas Univ., Austin (USA). Bureau of Economic Geology
OSTI Identifier:
6458720
Report Number(s):
DOE/ET/44614-T2
TRN: 81-008925
DOE Contract Number:  
AC97-79ET44614
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
58 GEOSCIENCES; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; SALT DEPOSITS; SOLUBILITY; THICKNESS; TEXAS; GEOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; EROSION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FRACTURES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RAIN; SITE SELECTION; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL; ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATIONS; DATA; DIMENSIONS; FAILURES; GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS; INFORMATION; MANAGEMENT; NORTH AMERICA; NUMERICAL DATA; SOUTHWEST REGION; USA; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; 580300* - Mineralogy, Petrology, & Rock Mechanics- (-1989); 580100 - Geology & Hydrology- (-1989); 510500 - Environment, Terrestrial- Site Resource & Use Studies- (-1989); 052002 - Nuclear Fuels- Waste Disposal & Storage

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Gustavson, T. C., Presley, M. W., Handford, C. R., Finley, R. J., Dutton, S. P., Baumgardner, Jr., R. W., McGillis, K. A., and Simpkins, W. W. Geology and geohydrology of the Palo Duro Basin, Texas Panhandle. Report on the progress of nuclear waste isolation feasibility studies, 1979. United States: N. p., 1980. Web. doi:10.2172/6458720.
Gustavson, T. C., Presley, M. W., Handford, C. R., Finley, R. J., Dutton, S. P., Baumgardner, Jr., R. W., McGillis, K. A., & Simpkins, W. W. Geology and geohydrology of the Palo Duro Basin, Texas Panhandle. Report on the progress of nuclear waste isolation feasibility studies, 1979. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6458720
Gustavson, T. C., Presley, M. W., Handford, C. R., Finley, R. J., Dutton, S. P., Baumgardner, Jr., R. W., McGillis, K. A., and Simpkins, W. W. 1980. "Geology and geohydrology of the Palo Duro Basin, Texas Panhandle. Report on the progress of nuclear waste isolation feasibility studies, 1979". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/6458720. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6458720.
@article{osti_6458720,
title = {Geology and geohydrology of the Palo Duro Basin, Texas Panhandle. Report on the progress of nuclear waste isolation feasibility studies, 1979},
author = {Gustavson, T. C. and Presley, M. W. and Handford, C. R. and Finley, R. J. and Dutton, S. P. and Baumgardner, Jr., R. W. and McGillis, K. A. and Simpkins, W. W.},
abstractNote = {Since early 1977, the Bureau of Economic Geology has been evaluating several salt-bearing basins within the State of Texas as part of the national nuclear repository program. The Bureau, a research unit of The University of Texas at Austin and the State of Texas, is carrying out a long-term program to gather and interpret all geologic and hydrologic information necessary for description, delineation, and evaluation of salt-bearing strata in the Palo Duro and Dalhart Basins of the Texas Panhandle. The program in FY 79 has been subdivided into four broad research tasks, which are addressed by a basin analysis group, a surface studies group, a geohydrology group, and a host-rock analysis group. The basin analysis group has delineated the structural and stratigraphic framework of the basins, initiated natural resource assessment, and integrated data from 8000 ft (2400 m) of core material into salt-stratigraphy models. Salt depth and thickness have been delineated for seven salt-bearing stratigraphic units. Concurrently, the surface studies group has collected ground and remotely sensed data to describe surficial processes, including salt solution, slope retreat/erosion mechanisms, geomorphic evolution, and fracture system development. The basin geohydrology group has begun evaluating both shallow and deep fluid circulation within the basins. The newly formed host-rock analysis group has initiated study of cores from two drilling sites for analysis of salt and the various lithologies overlying and interbedded with salt units. This paper, a summary report of progress in FY 79, presents principal conclusions and reviews methods used and types of data and maps generated.},
doi = {10.2172/6458720},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6458720}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1980},
month = {Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1980}
}