Book Description

Core samples from all three holes examined thusly over 1-ft intervals revealed these microfractures to occur consistently at points 35-38 ft radially from the shot point. A radius of 36+2 feet is therefore assigned to the explosion cavity. The true crater (cavity) surface is a hemisphere radially symmetrical about the shot point at depths below approximately 110 ft. Fixing this radius relative to calculated cavity expansion curves and to the probable time of venting aids in the understanding of history and mechanisms of cavity growth, from which speculative treatments of the behavior of rock and water vapors in the growing cavity and of a possible origin of vesiculated glass found in the crater throwout rubble have been developed.