Lake Tecopa: Quaternary geology of Tecopa Valley, California, a multimillion-year record and its relevance to the proposed nuclear-waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 333, Issue , 1999, Pages 301-344

  Morrison, Roger Barron ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EROSION; GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES; GROUNDWATER; LANDFORMS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY;

GROUND WATER RECHARGE; LONG-TERM SAFETY; NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORIES; QUATERNARY GEOLOGIES; QUATERNARY STRATA; SOIL DEVELOPMENT; STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS; YUCCA MOUNTAIN , NEVADA;

LAKES;

FAULT DISPLACEMENT; INTERMONTANE BASIN; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PLAYA; PLIOCENE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REPOSITORY; SHALLOW WATER; TECTONIC SETTING; WASTE FACILITY;

CALIFORNIA; NEVADA; TECOPA VALLEY; UNITED STATES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

EID: 84870951714     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2333-7.301     Document Type: Article

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