Geotechnical properties of tuffs at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 408, Issue , 2006, Pages 33-89

  Ciancia, Mala ^a   Heiken, Grant ^b  

^a URS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTY; TUFF; VOLCANO;

NEVADA; UNITED STATES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

EID: 84872057294     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2408(03)     Document Type: Article

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