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

Abstract

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.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), Carlsbad, NM
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE - Office of Environmental Management (EM)
OSTI Identifier:
877272
Report Number(s):
DOE/WIPP-03-3294
TRN: US1001764
DOE Contract Number:  
AC29-01AL66444
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; DISSOLUTION; DOLOMITE; ENGINEERS; GROUND LEVEL; PILOT PLANTS; SAND; TESTING; WIPP; Culebra Dolomite; Permiam Rustler Formation; Dewey Lake; Rustler; Salado; Tamarisk; Gatuna; geologic; hydrologic

Citation Formats

Powers, Dennis W, and Washington Regulatory and Environmental Services. Basic Data Report for Drillhole SNL-3 (C-2949). United States: N. p., 2005. Web. doi:10.2172/877272.
Powers, Dennis W, & Washington Regulatory and Environmental Services. Basic Data Report for Drillhole SNL-3 (C-2949). United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/877272
Powers, Dennis W, and Washington Regulatory and Environmental Services. 2005. "Basic Data Report for Drillhole SNL-3 (C-2949)". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/877272. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/877272.
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title = {Basic Data Report for Drillhole SNL-3 (C-2949)},
author = {Powers, Dennis W and Washington Regulatory and Environmental Services},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.2172/877272},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/877272}, journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jan 20 00:00:00 EST 2005},
month = {Thu Jan 20 00:00:00 EST 2005}
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