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Drilling and geohydrologic data for test hole USW UZ-1, Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada

Description: This report presents data collected to determine the hydrologic characteristics of tuffaceous rocks penetrated in test hole USW UZ-1. The borehole is the first of two deep, large-diameter, unsaturated-zone test holes dry drilled using the vacuum/reverse-air-circulation method. This test hole was drilled in and near the southwestern part of the Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada, in a program conducted in cooperation with the US Department of Energy. These investigations are part of the Yucca … more
Date: December 31, 1990
Creator: Whitfield, M.S.; Thordarson, W.; Hammermeister, D.P. & Warner, J.B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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