GIS surface effects archive of underground nuclear detonations conducted at Yucca Flat and Pahute Mesa, Nevada Test Site, Nevada

Technical Report · Fri Nov 02 00:00:00 EST 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/788834· OSTI ID:788834

Grasso, D N

This report presents a new comprehensive, digital archive of more than 40 years of geologic surface effects maps produced at individual detonation sites throughout the Yucca Flat and Pahute Mesa nuclear testing areas of the Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada. The Geographic Information System (GIS) surface effects map archive on CD-ROM (this report) comprehensively documents the surface effects of underground nuclear detonations conducted at two of the most extensively used testing areas of the Nevada Test Site. Between 1951 and 1992, numerous investigators of the U.S. Geological Survey, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency meticulously mapped the surface effects caused by underground nuclear testing. Their work documented the effects of more than seventy percent of the underground nuclear detonations conducted at Yucca Flat and all of the underground nuclear detonations conducted at Pahute Mesa.

• Research Organization: United States Geological Survey - Nevada, Las Vegas, NV (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Nevada Operations Office (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AI08-96NV11967
• OSTI ID: 788834
• Report Number(s): USGS OFR 01-272; TRN: US0200416
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: 2 Nov 2001
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
GEOLOGIC SURVEYS
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
NEVADA TEST SITE
TESTING
UNDERGROUND EXPLOSIONS
NUCLEAR TEST SITES
GEOMORPHOLOGY
BLAST EFFECTS
GIS
GEOLOGY
GEOLOGIC SURFACE EFFECTS
NUCLEAR DETONATIONS
YUCCA FLAT
PAHUTE MESA
NEVADA
NYE COUNTY