Vibration response and evaluation of of shale mine openings to the Rio Blanco event /
by Robert D. Munson.

Description

Corporate Author

Munson, Robert D.

Related Names

Project Plowshare (U.S.)
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Nevada Operations Office.
Denver Mining Research Center (U.S.), sponsor.

Language(s)

English

Published

Denver, Colorado : United States, Bureau of Mines, 1975.

Subjects

Rio Blanco Oil Shale Project.
Oil-shale industry > Oil-shale industry / Colorado.
Underground nuclear explosions > Underground nuclear explosions / Colorado.

Note

Project Rio Blanco is a joint experiment sponsored by the CER Geonuclear Corporation (CER) of Las Vegas, Nevada and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) as part of the Plowshare Program. Its purpose is to study the economic and technical feasibility of using multiple underground nuclear explosion to stimulate production of natural gas from deeply buried low productivity gas-bearing formations of the Piceance Basin in Northwestern Colorado.
"USBM 10013."
"July 10, 1975."

Physical Description

21 [33] pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

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