Data report for the 1983 seismic-refraction experiment at Yucca Mountain, Beatty and vicinity, southwestern Nevada
In June 1983, the US Geological Survey (USGS) conducted a seismic-refraction survey in the vicinity of Yucca Mountain and Beatty, Nevada to better define the P(compressional)-wave velocity structure of the upper crust in this area. This experiment is part of continuing seismic investigations in the region of the Nevada Test Site (NTS) by the USGS on behalf of the Nevada Nuclear Waste Storage Investigation Project (NNWSI) to aid in determining the feasibility of the proposed nuclear waste disposal site at Yucca Mountin. The 1983 seismic-refraction survey consisted of ten individual explosions at nine shotpoints, recorded by two deployments of 120 portable seismographs constituting North-South and East-West profiles (Plate 1). The North-South profile extended 45 kilometers along the western flank of Yucca Mountain. Recorder station spacing averaged 0.40 km, and seven shots spaced 8 km apart were fired. The East-West profile extended 60 km from Yucca Mountain west through Fluorspar Canyon and Titus Canyon to the floor of Death Valley, California. Recorder station spacing averaged 0.40 km to 0.60 km and three shots were fired at Yucca Mountain, near Beatty, and at the Death Valley boundary. This report includes record sections from the ten shotpoints (Plates 2-11), a list of siesmograph locations (Appendix A), a list of shotpoint locations and shot times, DKDAT data files and Tape Grade Code (Appendix B), and a list of first-arrival traveltime picks (Appendix C). Detailed interpretation of these data will be published in a subsequent report.
- Research Organization:
- Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AI08-78ET44802
- OSTI ID:
- 59765
- Report Number(s):
- USGS-OFR-84-661; ON: DE86002909
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 1984
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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