Add this copy of Impact and Explosion Cratering; Planetary and to cart. $457.00, good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1977 by Pergamon Press.
Edition:
First Edition [stated], presumed first printing
Publisher:
Elsevier Science & Technology
Published:
1977
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17058026309
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Good. [16], 1301, [1] pages. Figures. Tables. References. Subject Index. Author Index. This compendium was compiled by The Lunar Science Institute, Houston Texas. This Lunar Science Institute Topical Conference was hosted by the U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Division, Branch of Astrogeologic Studies. Cover has some wear and soiling. Bright blue cover with color photos of Meteor Crater Arizona on the front and Dial Pack Crater Canada on the back. Dave Roddy was a world-renowned scientist at the forefront of investigators studying impact and explosion craters. His field mapping of Flynn Creek was the first mapping detailed enough to demonstrate the impact origin of an ancient structure in North America. David was an authority on the Meteor Crater impact structure, east of Flagstaff. Dave's work has assisted in the recognition of large-body impact as an important geologic process on Earth. His study of explosion craters led to longtime involvement with the Department of Defense and was of critical value in strategic military planning. His specialties were the mechanics of hypervelocity impacts, nuclear-and explosion-cratering processes, and high-pressure shock-wave deformation of natural materials, and the geologic and geophysical applications of the science to terrestrial and planetary research. In 1969, Pepin was one of the first scientists in the world to study samples from the Earth's lunar satellite. Pepin also lent a hand with everything from astronaut training to NASA's Sample Allocation Committee-the folks who decided who got to study pieces of the moon. Aspects of cratering phenomenology are considered along with material properties and shock effects, theoretical cratering mechanics, ejecta, and problems of scaling. Attention is given to the application of high explosion cratering data to planetary problems, cratering mechanisms observed in laboratory-scale high-explosive experiments, nuclear cratering experiments, complex craters in alluvium, terrestrial impact structures, the Ries impact crater, buried impact craters in the Williston basin and the adjacent area, crater morphometry from bistatic radar, a Fourier analysis of planimetric lunar crater shape, a stratigraphic model for Bessel Crater and southern Mare Serenitatis, a nested-crater model of lunar ringed basins, Martian fresh crater morphology and morphometry, the distribution and emplacement of ejecta around Martian impact craters, the nature of the present interplanetary crater-forming projectiles, cratering mechanics and future Martian exploration, the response of rocks to large stresses, the dynamical implications of the petrology and distribution of impact melt rocks, and a review and comparison of hypervelocity impact and explosion cratering calculations. Crater studies indicate now that there are a broad set of morphological and structural analogs which occur in both impact and explosion craters. A description is presented of impact and explosion analogs for three basic crater types, including bowl-shaped craters, flat-floored craters with central uplift, and flat-floored craters with multirings. A systematic documentation is provided of the more critical morphological and structural analogs common between large natural bowl-shaped impact and explosion craters, between central uplift impact and explosion craters, and between multiring impact and explosion craters. The data presented consist of a set of published and unpublished cratering studies assembled into a single ordered outline with each crater described in the same format and graphic style. There are some discussions of nuclear weapons/nuclear explosions/nuclear cratering, for example D. L. Orphal addressed calculations of explosion cratering in connection with the shallow-buried nuclear detonation Johnnie Boy. The Symposium content was divided into the following sections: Impact and explosion Cratering Overview; Cratering Phenomenology, Material Properties and Shock...
