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Accession Number : ADA139581

Title : Seismo-Acoustic Effects of Sonic Booms on Archeological Sites, Valentine Military Operations Area

Descriptive Note : Environmental research papers

Corporate Author : AIR FORCE GEOPHYSICS LAB HANSCOM AFB MA

Personal Author(s) : Battis, James C.

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Report Date : NOV 1983

Pagination or Media Count : 35

Abstract : Seismo-acoustic recordings of sonic booms were made at two sites in the Valentine Military Operations Aras (MOA). Each location was selected as representative of a class of significant archeological sites found within the MOA. These studies indicate that sonic booms are unlikely to cause damage to the archeological finds. The expected motions are, at worst, 8 percent of the limits set by strict blasting codes and comparable to velocities that could be produced by local earthquakes which have occurred in the Valentine area. At these levels of motion, competent rock will be unaffected by the transmission of seismic waves. The predicted velocity levels are unlikely to initiate either fracture or spalling in rocks. However, it is possible that in rocks where natural meteorological action has initiated these erosive mechanisms the sonic boom induced motion accelerate the processes to some small, and probably insignificant, degree.

Descriptors : *SEISMIC WAVES, *SONIC BOOM, SURFACE WAVES, DAMAGE, ACOUSTIC WAVES, TEXAS, ADMITTANCE, NEVADA, ARCHEOLOGY, STRUCTURES, WAVEFORMS

Subject Categories : HUMANITIES AND HISTORY
SEISMOLOGY
ACOUSTICS

Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE

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