Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994jgr....99.5621p&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 99, no. E3, p. 5,621-5,638
Physics
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Carbonates, Craters, Electron Paramagnetic Resonance, Impact Damage, Meteorites, Nuclear Explosions, Rocks, Shock Waves, Boreholes, Deformation, Ejecta, Lithology, Planets, Craters, Carbonates, Shock Effects, Barringer Crater, Arizona, Samples, Terrestrial, Comparison, Laboratory Studies, Description, Epr, Spectra, Ejecta, Pressure, Energy, Scaling, Core Samples, Spectroscopy, Resonance, Manganese, Magnetic Field, Procedure, Calculations, Depth
Scientific paper
Carbonate samples from the 8.9-Mt nuclear (near-surface explosion) crater, OAK, and a terrestrial impact crater, Meteor Crater, were analyzed for shock damage using electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR). Samples from below the OAK apparent crater floor were obtained from six boreholes, as well as ejecta recovered from the crater floor. The degree of shock damage in the carbonate material was assessed by comparing the sample spectra to the spectra of Solenhofen and Kaibab limestone, which had been shocked to known pressures. Analysis of the OAK Crater borehole samples has identified a thin zone of allocthonous highly shocked (10-13 GPa) carbonate material underneath the apparent crater floor. This approx. 5- to 15-m-thick zone occurs at a maximum depth of approx. 125 m below current seafloor at the borehole, sited at the initial position of the OAK explosive, and decreases in depth towards the apparent crater edge. Because this zone of allocthonous shocked rock delineates deformed rock below, and a breccia of mobilized sand and collapse debris above, it appears to outline the transient crater. The transient crater volume inferred in this way is found to by 3.2 +/- 0.2 times 106cu m, which is in good agreement with a volume of 5.3 times 106cu m inferred from gravity scaling of laboratory experiments. A layer of highly shocked material is also found near the surface outside the crater. The latter material could represent a fallout ejecta layer. The ejecta boulders recovered from the present crater floor experienced a range of shock pressures from approx. 0 to 15 GPa with the more heavily shocked samples all occurring between radii of 360 and approx. 600 m. Moreover, the fossil content, lithology and Sr isotopic composition all demonstrate that the initial position of the bulk of the heavily shocked rock ejecta sampled was originally near surface rock at initial depths in the 32 to 45-m depth (below sea level) range. The EPR technique is also sensitive to prehistoric shock damage. This is demonstrated by our study of shocked Kaibab limestone from the 49,000-year-old Meteor (Barringer) Crater Arizona.
Ahrens Thomas J.
Polansky C. A.
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