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Selected Bibliography of Environmental Studies on Mortandad Canyon

  • Baltz, E.H., J.H. Abrahams, and W.D. Purtymun, 1963, Preliminary Report on the Geology and Hydrology of Mortandad Canyon near Los Alamos, New Mexico, with Reference to Disposal of Liquid Low-Level Radioactive Waste, Open File Report, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Baltz et al. 1963, 0024
  • Dander, D. C., Unsaturated Groundwater flow beneath Upper Mortandad Canyon, Los Alamos, New Mexico, Los Alamos National Laboratory Report LA-UR-98-4759, October 1998.
  • Devaurs, M., and W.D. Purtymun, 1985, Hydrologic Characteristics of the Alluvial Aquifers in Mortandad, Canada del Buey and Pajarito Canyons, LA-UR-85-4002
  • Environmental Surveillance Group, "Radionuclide Uptake by Vegetable Crops in the Mortandad Canyon Garden Plot During 1976", Environmental Surveillance at Los Alamos During 1977, LA-7263-MS, pp. 38
  • Geddis, A.M., 1992, Preliminary Modeling of Moisture Movement in the tuff Beneath Mortandad Canyon, Los Alamos National Laboratory, LA-UR-92-2577 For abstract, see: http://flashpoint.lanl.gov/
  • Hakonson, T. E., J. W. Nyhan, and W. D. Purtymun, Accumulation and transport of soil plutonium in liquid waste discharge areas at Los Alamos, p. 175-189 in Transuranium Nuclides in the Environment, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 1976.
  • Koenig, E. D., and McLin, S. G., Application of a lumped-parameter model toward understanding the behavior of the Mortandad Canyon perched alluvial system, Los Alamos, New Mexico, unpublished report, New Mexico Tech., 45 pp., 1992.
  • LANL 1997: Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Work Plan for Mortandad Canyon," Los Alamos National Laboratory Report LA-UR-97-3291 (September 1997).
  • Longmire, P., D. Broxton, W. Stone, B. Newman, R. Gilkeson, J. Marin, D. Vaniman, D. Counce, D. Rogers, R. Hull, S. McLin, and R. Warren, Characterization Well R-15 Completion Report, Los Alamos National Laboratory Report LA-UR-00-4139, For abstract, see: http://flashpoint.lanl.gov/
  • Mullen, K. I., M. A. Mullen, and D. B. Rogers, Perched Zone Monitoring Well 1995 Analytical Results, Los Alamos National Laboratory Report LA-UR-00-949, December 1997.
  • Nyhan, J. W., F. R. Miera, and R. J. Peters, Distribution of plutonium in soil particle size fractions of liquid effluent-receiving areas at Los Alamos, Journal of Environmental Quality, 5, p. 50-56, 1976.
  • Polzer, W.L., and E.H. Essington, 1983, Mobility of Waste Actinides in the Shallow Aquifer of Mortandad Canyon, Los Alamos, New Mexico, Rough Draft
  • Purtymun, W.D. 1964, Progress Report on the Hydrology of Mortandad Canyon, Disposal System for Treated Low-level Liquid Radioactive Wastes; July 1961 to June 1963, Administrative Release Albuquerque, New Mexico; Purtymun 1964, 1083
  • Purtymun, W.D. 1967, The Disposal of Industrial Effluents in Mortandad Canyon, Los Alamos County, New Mexico, Administration Release
  • Purtymun, W.D. 1974, Dispersion and Movement of Tritium in a Shallow Aquifer in Mortandad Canyon at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, LA-5716-MS
  • Purtymun, W. D., Geohydrology of the Pajarito Plateau, with reference to quality of water, 1949-1972, 344 pp., Los Alamos National Laboratory Informal Report, December 1975.
  • Purtymun, W. D., Geologic and hydrologic records of observation wells, test holes, test wells, supply wells, springs, and surface water stations in the Los Alamos area, 339 pp., Los Alamos National Laboratory Report LA-12883-MS, January 1995.
    http://lib-www.lanl.gov/la-pubs/00285728.pdf (p.[i]-xix) 71KB
    http://lib-www.lanl.gov/la-pubs/00285729.pdf (p.1-136) 1.5MB
    http://lib-www.lanl.gov/la-pubs/00285730.pdf (p.137-228) 1.6MB
    http://lib-www.lanl.gov/la-pubs/00285731.pdf (p.229-339) 935KB
  • Purtymun, W.D., J.R. Buchholz, and T.E. Hakonson, 1975, Chemical Quality of Effluents and their Influence on Water Quality in Mortandad Canyon, LA-UR-75-2076
  • Purtymun, W.D., M.N. Maes, and R. Peters, 1984, "Distribution of Moisture, Tritium and Plutonium in the Alluvium, Aquifer and Underlying Tuff in Mortandad Canyon," Environmental Surveillance at Los Alamos During 1984, LA-10100-ENV, pp. 69-71
  • Purtymun, W.D., W.R. Hansen, and R.J. Peters, 1983, Radiochemical Quality of Water in the Shallow Aquifer in Mortandad Canyon 1967 - 1978, LA-9675-MS
  • Rogers, D. B., Impact of tritium disposal on surface water and groundwater at Los Alamos National Laboratory through 1997, Los Alamos National Laboratory Report LA-13465-SR, July 1998. For abstract, see: http://flashpoint.lanl.gov/
  • Rogers, D. B., Impact of strontium-90 on surface water and groundwater at Los Alamos National Laboratory through 2000, Los Alamos National Laboratory Report LA-13855-MS, December 2001. For abstract, see: http://flashpoint.lanl.gov/
  • Stone, W. J., Preliminary results of modeling the shallow aquifer, Mortandad Canyon, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, 14 pp. plus figures and tables, Draft report, NMED DOE Oversight Program, February, 1995.
  • Steen, C.R. 1979, The Mortandad Style of Rock Art, Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico, LA-UR-79-1259
  • Stoker, A.K.,W.D. Purtymun, S. McLin, and M. Maes, 1991, Extent of Saturation in Mortandad Canyon, LA-UR-91-1660
  • Rogers, D. B., and B. M. Gallaher, The Unsaturated Hydraulic Characteristics of the Bandelier Tuff, Los Alamos National Laboratory Report LA-12968-MS, September 1995
    http://lib-www.lanl.gov/la-pubs/00326205.pdf (p. i-xi, 1-75) 1.7MB
    http://lib-www.lanl.gov/la-pubs/00326206.pdf (p. Appendices A-F) 1.5MB
    http://lib-www.lanl.gov/la-pubs/00326207.pdf (p. Appendices G) 90KB

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