Environment Reporter

Environment Reporter
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Total Pages: 1334
Release: 1970
Genre: Environmental law
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Current developments: a weekly review of pollution control and related environmental management problems -- Decisions (later published in bound volumes. Environment reporter. Cases) --Monographs -- Federal laws -- Federal regulations --State air laws -- State water laws -- State solid waste, land use laws -- Mining.

Seismo-acoustic Effects of Sonic Booms on Archeological Sites, Valentine Military Operations Area

Seismo-acoustic Effects of Sonic Booms on Archeological Sites, Valentine Military Operations Area
Author: James C. Battis
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Total Pages: 40
Release: 1983
Genre: Sonic boom
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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.