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Plates from the Final Report of Project Shoal, Fallon, 1963 & E& MJ Group

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Plates from the Final Report of Project Shoal, Fallon, 1963 & E& MJ Group
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Six publications from the 1940s: Mining and Metallurgy; Chemical Industries; Engineering and Mining Journal. Also plates to accompany the final report on Sand Hills Range, Churchill County, Nevada for the Atomic Energy Commission: "For Shoal Event, Project Shade, Vela Uniform Program." Project Shoal was an underground nuclear test that took place on October 26, 1963, within the Sand Springs Range, approximately 30 miles southeast of Fallon in a granite formation of the range. The site was selected because its earthquake activity afforded a basis for seismic signal comparisons. Project Shoal was part of the Vela Uniform program sponsored jointly by the U.S Department of Defense and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Vela Uniform was directed toward locating, detecting, and identifying underground detonations. The objective of Project Shoal was to detonate a nuclear device underground in an active seismic area so that seismic traces for the test and prior earthquakes could be compared and differentiated. The test was performed on October 26, 1963. It involved detonating a 12-kiloton nuclear device in granitic rock at a depth of approximately 1,211 feet (369 m) below ground surface.

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