Hydrochemical and stream sediment reconnaissance of the National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program, primarily for the Rocky Mountain States of New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and the State of Alaska. Semiannual progress report, April-September 1979
Reconnaissance sampling was done in five partially completed quadrangles, the North Slope of Alaska, and the Panhandle of Alaska. Detailed geochemical survey sampling was done in nine follow-up study areas. About 23,000 waters and 25,000 sediments were collected, bringing the LASL totals to 165,000 waters and 185,000 sediments from 220,000 locations. Almost all of the Rocky Mountain region and 85% of Alaska have been sampled. About 9000 water and 22,000 sediment samples were analyzed for the standard LASL multielement suite (uranium plus 43 additional elements). Work continued on improving and automating all analytical techniques and building a state-of-the-art emission spectrograph for waters and sediments. The second neutron activation line became operational in July, bringing the sediment throughout to the designed 400 samples per day. Seven multielement reconnaissance reports, one detailed geochemical survey report, one semiannual progress report, and one topical report were open filed at the US DOE Grand Junction Office, Colorado.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos Scientific Lab., NM (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 5820069
- Report Number(s):
- LA-8092-PR; TRN: 80-002357
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Hydrogeochemical and stream sediment reconnaissance of the National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program primarily for the Rocky Mountain states of New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana, and the State of Alaska. Semiannual progress report, October 1978-March 1979
Hydrogeochemical and stream sediment reconnaissance of the National Uranium Resource Evaluation Program: the Rocky Mountain States of New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana, and the State of Alaska. Progress report, October--December 1977
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