Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 80e66b61-f0ed-49db-ba0b-ba2b7a7a0d52
Document Type: srp
Title: BASIC GEOLOGIC AND SEISMIC INFORMATION
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0423/ML042390206.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 2
Section ID: 2.5.1
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on features), and other seismically induced features. A complete presentation, including supporting basic data, of the characteristics of the subsurface materials beneath the site must be provided (or cross-referenced with SRP Section 2.5.4) and reviewed by the staff so that an assessment of the potential for amplification of vibratory ground motion or ground failure under dynamic loading can be made. Potential ground failure modes may include liquefaction, excessive settlement, differential settlement, and those caused by high tectonic stresses. Additionally, for sites adjacent to 2.5.1-2 Rev. 3 - March 1997 large bodies of water, information pertinent to estimating tsunami and seiche hazards must be provided or cross-referenced to SRP Section 2.4.12. 2. Nontectonic Deformation Information. Adequate information must be provided for an assessment of other nontectonic geological hazards, such as landsliding and other mass-wasting phenomena, subsidence (including differential subsidence), growth faulting, glacially induced deformation, chemical weathering, the potential for collapse or subsidence in areas underlain by carbonate rocks, evidence of preconsolidation, etc. 3. Conditions Caused by Human Activities. Information on changes in groundwater conditions caused by the withdrawal or injection of fluids, subsidence or collapse caused by withdrawal of fluids, mineral extraction, induced seismicity and fault movement caused by reservoir impoundment, fluid injection or withdrawal must be included in the SAR or ESR and evaluated by the ECGB staff. Acceptance criteria related to the above conditions are presented in SRP Subsections 2.5.1.1, "Regional Geology," and 2.5.1.2, "Site Geology." Information provided by the applicant in the SAR or ESR in support of its application for a license should be reviewed in terms of the regional and site tectonics, with emphasis on the Quaternary period, structural geology, physiography, geomorphology, stratigraphy, and lithology. In