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Mushroom cloud from the "Stokes" nuclear test: photographic print

Date

1962-06-23

Description

The "Stokes" Test, conducted at the Nevada Test Site on August 7, 1957, was a 19 kiloton device exploded from a balloon.

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Mushroom cloud from the "Owens" nuclear test: photographic print

Date

1962-05-10

Description

Operation Plumbbob "Owens" test. Nuclear explosion 25, May 1957.

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Surficial geologic map of the Specter Range NW quadrangle, Nye County, Nevada, 1989

Date

1989

Description

58 x 47 cm., on sheet 74 x 81 cm., folded in envelope 30 x 24 cm. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Geology mapped in 1984-85." Includes text, bibliography, and location maps. "Prepared in cooperation with the U. S. Deparment of Energy." "Base from U. S. Geological Survey, 1961. Photorevised 1983. 10,0000-foot grid ticks based on Nevada coordinate system, central zone. 1000-meter Universal Transverse Mercator grid ticks, zone 11, shown in blue." Original publisher: U. S. Geological Survey, Series: Miscellaneous investigations series map I, Scale: 1:24 000.

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Geologic map of the northeast quarter of the Bullfrog 15-minute quadrangle, Nye County, Nevada, 1990

Date

1990

Description

58 x 46 cm., on sheet 87 x 102 cm., folded in envelope 30 x 24 cm. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Contour interval 40 feet." "Base from U.S. Geological Survey 1:62,500. 1954." "Geology mapped in 1985 and 1988." Includes text, bibliography, 4 col. cross sections, and location and index maps. "Prepared in cooperation with the U. S. Atomic Commission." Original publisher: U. S. Geological Survey, Series: Miscellaneous investigations series, map I, Scale: 1:24 000.

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Winter on the Nevada Test Site: color photographs

Date

1945 to 1982

Description

Winter on the Nevada Test site. Photo was taken from the mesas in the northwest region.

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Remains of a building on the Nevada Test Site: color photographs

Date

1945 to 1982

Description

Remains of a building on the Nevada Test Site. Campsites of nomadic Indians have been found near several natural springs on the Nevada Test Site. A ranch headquarters and camp for horse hunters was located near Tippipah Springs. The site also was a relay post on the mail route from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles during the 1850s. The site is one of many protected archeological sites on the Nevada Test Site.

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Wild kit foxes at the Nevada Test Site: color photographs

Date

1945 to 1982

Description

Kit Foxes peer from a culvert at a construction site on Nevada Test Site.

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Another view of wild horses at the Nevada Test Site: color photographs

Date

1945 to 1982

Description

Another view of wild horses as they roam the higher elevations of the Nevada Test Site.

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Wild horses at the Nevada Test Site: color photographs

Date

1945 to 1982

Description

Small herds of wild horses roam the higher elevations of the Nevada Test Site.

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Mushroom cloud from the "Priscilla" nuclear test: color photographs

Date

1962-05-23

Description

"Priscilla" was a 37 kiloton balloon test fired June 24, 1957 at the Nevada Test Site.

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