Experimental hypervelocity impact into quartz sand - Distribution and shock metamorphism of ejecta

Details Experimental hypervelocity impact into quartz sand - Distribution and shock metamorphism of ejecta Experimental hypervelocity impact into quartz sand - Distribution and shock metamorphism of ejecta

Oct 1975

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1975jgr....80.4062s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 80, Oct. 10, 1975, p. 4062-4077.

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Hypervelocity Impact, Metamorphism (Geology), Particle Size Distribution, Projectile Cratering, Sands, Craters, Mass Distribution, Quartz, Shock Loads

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Results are presented for vertical impacts of 0.3-g cylindrical plastic projectiles into noncohesive quartz sand in which vertical and horizontal reference strate were employed by using layers of colored sand. The impacts were performed at velocities of 5.9-6.9 km/sec with a vertical gun ballistic range. The craters, 30-33 cm in diameter, reveal a radial decay of the ejecta mass per unit area with a power of -2.8 to -3.5. Material displaced from the upper 15% of the crater depth d is represented within the whole ejecta blanked, material from deeper than 28% of d is deposited inside 2 crater radii, and no material from deeper than 33% of d was ejected beyond the crater rim. Shock-metamorphosed particles (glassy agglutinates, cataclastic breccias, and comminuted quartz) amount to some 4% of the total displaced mass and indicate progressive zones of decay of shock intensity from a peak pressure of 300 kbar. The shock-metamorphosed particles and the shock-induced change in the grain size distribution of ejected samples have close analogies to the basic characteristics of the lunar regolith. Possible applications to regolith formation and to ejecta formations of large-scale impact craters are discussed.

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