A Schlumberger resistivity survey of the Amargosa Desert, southern Nevada

Structure of pre-Cenozoic rocks in the vicinity of Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada: A potential nuclear-waste disposal site

“…Aeromagnetic maps suggest that the volcanic rocks pinch out about at the latitude of Lathrop Wells and therefore that alluvial deposits constitute most or all of the cover in the Amargosa Desert. This seems evident at the coarse high-altitude scale of the State aeromagnetic map (1:500,000, Zietz and others, 1977), of which the relevant part is presented here, enlarged, as figure 7 and apparently confirmed by low-altitude surveys (Greenhaus and Zablocki, 1982, fig. 4; Kane and Bracken, 1983).…”

Finite-element simulation of ground-water flow in the vicinity of Yucca Mountain, Nevada-California

“…Byers and others (1968) mapped the zero-thickness line for tuffs associated with the eruption of Timber Mountain near the southern boundary of the Nevada Test Site. Greenhaus and Zablocki (1982) indicate that strongly magnetized tuffs are not present in significant quantities beneath the Amargosa Desert. Magnetized tuffs again are present south of the Furnace Creek fault zone.…”

“…Results from gravity and magnetic surveys are presented in Healey and Miller (1971), Kane and others (1981), Ponce (1981), Greenhaus and Zablocki (1982), Ponce and Hanna (1982), and Snyder and Carr (1982). Resistivity studies of the area were conducted by Smith and others (1981), Fitterman (1982), and Greenhaus and Zablocki (1982). Reconnaissance seismicrefraction studies are presented in Pankratz (1982).…”

Hydrology of Yucca Mountain and vicinity, Nevada-California — Investigative results through mid-1983

“…From approximately 10 km north of Amargosa Valley (formerly Lathrop Wells) southward past Alkali Flat, alluvium is within the saturated zone. Aeromagnetic data (Greenhaus and Zablocki, 1982) show that volcanic rocks are scarce beneath the Amargosa Desert. Presumably Paleozoic or Precambrian rocks underlie the alluvium, but details of their lithology and structure are unknown.…”