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Interbasin Movement Of Ground Water At The Nevada Test Site, Isaac J. Winograd Mar 1962

Interbasin Movement Of Ground Water At The Nevada Test Site, Isaac J. Winograd

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The present paper presents hydraulic evidence for the interbasin circulation of ground water through carbonate rocks of Paleozoic age at the Nevada Test Site. An integral part of this evidence is the discovery that aquifers in alluvium and tuff, formerly thought to be the principal aquifers at the Test Site, are semiperched above a thick tuffaceous aquiclude that separates them from the carbonate rocks.

This paper is based on one of the studies being made by the Geological
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