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Experience with the Geology of Faults
Dr. Snow has abundent field experience with surface and subsurface fault
exposures. The physical and hydrological properties of faults have been
important in his investigations for dams, tunnels, mines and hazardous
waste sites, as well as in consultations concerning water supply and disposal
wells.
| 1951 |
Geologic mapping
of faulted Paleozoics, Gravelly Range, Montana, Prof. George C. Kennedy,
supervisor. |
| Summer, 1956 |
Geologic mapping of faulted Cretaceous rocks of the
California Coast Ranges, M.A. thesis, Prof. C. M. Gilbert, supervisor. |
June 1957-
September 1959 |
Geologic mapping, faulted sediments, granite and
metamorphics, Mantaro Bend Project, Central Andes of Peru, Cerro de
Pasco Corp. |
| 1959 |
Geologic mapping, faulted volcanics of Central Chile,
Rio Blanco Project, Cerro de Pasco Corp. |
| 1961 |
Siting of public buildings in active Haywards Fault
zone, Fremont, California: geologic mapping, resistivity and seismic
refraction profiling, airphoto interpretation, Woodward-Clyde-Sherard
& Assoc. |
| 1972 |
Teaching of graduate course in geological engineering,
with field investigations of active faults in the Bay Area, California,
University of California, Berkeley. |
| 1967-1977 |
Teaching of course in geological engineering, with
field inspections of Golden Fault, Colorado School of Mines. |
| 1965-1971 |
Supervision of pumping tests to evaluate hydraulics
of a fault zone in Front Range metamorphics, thesis of W.M. Shehata,
Colorado School of Mines. |
| 1972 |
Field investigation of faulting and induced seismicity,
Kremasta and Kastraki Reservoirs, Greece, U.S. Geological Survey. |
| 1972-1973 |
Field investigation of faulting and induced seismicity,
Lake Meade, Hoover Dam area, U.S. Geological Survey. |
| December 1973 |
Field investigation of faulting and induced seismicity,
Monteynard Reservoir, France, U.S. Geological Survey. |
| January, 1974 |
Field investigation of faulting and induced seismicity,
Bileca Reservoir, Yugoslavia, U.S. Geological Survey. |
| Summer, 1973 |
Field investigation of faulting and induced seismicity,
Kariba Reservoir area, Zambia-Rhodesia, U.S. Geological Survey. |
| Summer, 1974 |
Field investigation of faulting and induced seismicity,
Koyna Reservoir area, India, U.S. Geological Survey. |
| 1974 |
Examination of faulting, trench exploration and induced
seismicity, North Anna Reservoir, Virginia; testimony to NRC, Dames
& Moore, Inc. |
| 1974 |
Field investigation of faulting and induced seismicity,
Palo Verde Nuclear Reactor site, Arizona, Fugro Inc. |
| 1976 |
Field investigation of faulting and induced seismicity,
R.B. Russell Dam area, Georgia-South Carolina, Corps of Engineers.
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| 1976-1983 |
Consultations on drainage of open-pit mine slopes
in a fault zone; Pitch Mine, Homestake Mining Company. |
| 1980-1981 |
Hydrology of a drained fault zone, Mt. Emmons Mine,Colorado,
design of post-mining seals to mitigate acid effluent: Climax Molybdenum
Company. |
| 1977-1979 |
Review panels and consultations on DOE-funded projects
of LBL, LLL, Sandia and Rockwell-Hanford featuring fault hydrology. |
| 1967-1992 |
Attended numerous conferences on faulted rocks, including
two Penrose Conferences on earthquake mechanisms, presenting papers
at each. Many publications on fractured faulted rocks and induced
seismicity. Consultant to mining companies and federal agencies on
water flow in faults. Witnessed trenching of Golden Fault and inspected
work of Colorado Geological Survey there, 1977. Maintained surveillance
of work of Colorado School of Mines, USGS, John M. Blume, Inc., Woodward-Clyde
Consultants, Microgeophysics, Inc., Corps of Engineers on Golden Fault
mapping and seismicity. |
| 1989-1991 |
Consultant to Woodward-Clyde Consultants. Reviewed
inflows to faults at all Southern Calif. tunnels, input to models
of Inland Feeder and Cleveland Tunnels, Los Angeles, for drainage
and spring impacts, Tom Freeman. |
| 1989-1992 |
Investigation of mine-induced faulting of salt strata
overlying K2 potash mine, Saskatchewan, for Cigna Insurance Co. |
| 1989 |
Role of normal faults in brine migration during injection
into Barber's Hill Caprock, Texas, for City of Mont Belview |
| 1992 |
Investigation of Ghost Dance Fault conductivity properties,
Yucca Mountain, Nevada Test Site for U.S. Geological Survey. |
| 1990-1994 |
Influence of Osborn Fault Zone in mine-effluent contamination
at Bunker Hill Superfund Site, Idaho, for Science Applications Int'l.
Corp. |
| 1995-1996 |
Fault control of hydrology around Crown Jewel Pit,
Washington, for Hydro-Geo, Inc. |
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