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Title: Basic Data Report for Drillhole SNL-3 (C-2949)

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/877272· OSTI ID:877272

SNL-3 (permitted by the New Mexico State Engineer as C-2949) was drilled to provide geological data and hydrological testing of the Culebra Dolomite Member of the Permian Rustler Formation within a dissolution reentrant north of the WIPP site and well east of Livingston Ridge. SNL-3 is located in the southeast quarter of section 34, T21S, R31E, in eastern Eddy County, New Mexico. SNL-3 was drilled to a total depth of 970 ft below ground level (bgl). Below surface dune sand, SNL-3 encountered, in order, the Mescalero caliche, Gatuna, Dewey Lake, Rustler, and upper Salado Formations. Two intervals were cored: (1) from the lower Forty-niner Member through the Magenta Dolomite and into the upper Tamarisk Member; and (2) from the lower Tamarisk Member through the Culebra Dolomite and Los Meda?os Members and into the uppermost Salado.

Research Organization:
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), Carlsbad, NM
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE - Office of Environmental Management (EM)
DOE Contract Number:
AC29-01AL66444
OSTI ID:
877272
Report Number(s):
DOE/WIPP-03-3294; TRN: US1001764
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English