projects.

Brief reports on each of these projects are presented.j;

Major Descriptors: *ENIWETOK -- RESEARCH PROGRAMS
Descriptors: ALGAE; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BEHAVIOR; CORALS; ECOLOGY; FISHES;
PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REEF; RODENTS
Broader Terms: ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CNIDARIA;
GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES; ISLANDS; MAMMALS; MARSHALL ISLANDS; MICRONESIA;
OCEANIA; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PLANTS; SYNTHESIS; VERTEBRATES

Subject Categories:
(-1989)

-- Environment,

510100

10/5/907

Author(s):

Terrestrial

-- Behavioral Biology

550100

00617742

-- Environment,

520100*

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Aquatic -- Basic Studies --

-- Basic

Studies

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(-1989y

(Item 607 from file: 103)

ERA-05-021122; EDB-80-057266

Vizgirda,

J.;

Ahrens,

T.d.

Title: Shock effects in carbonate minerals and rocks.
Final report,
January~30 June 1978
Corporate Source:
California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena (USA).
Seismological Lab.
Publication Date: 30 Jun 1978
p 24

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Report Number(s):
AD-A-071372
Contract Number (DOE): DNAQ01-76-C-0218
Document Type: Report

Language: English
Journal Announcement: EDB7911

Availability: NTIS PC A02/MF A0Ql.
Subfile:

ERA

(Energy Research Abstracts);

NTS

(NTIS).

Country of Origin: United States
Country of Publication: United States
Abstract: The ESR spectra of Mn(++) in naturally and laboratory shocked
calcite crystals and coral core samples were studied and variations in
several spectral parameters were found to be correlative with shock
pressure. The amount of splitting in the central transition hyperfine
component peaks was observed to decrease in the upper levels of the
Cactus Crater core and in core samples shocked in the laboratory to
progressively higher pressures. A comparison of the splitting amplitude
between the two types of samples allows pressure assignments to the
Cactus core of 3.3 GPa at 8m. + or - 5m. and 2.0 GPa at 13m. + or - 5m.
Unshocked coral core samples showed no splitting amplitude variation
with depth. Results from coral subjected to a long duration pressure

pulse in the Miser’s Bluff TNT experiment are generally inconsistent.
Laboratory shocked single crystal calcite showed similar decreases in

hyperfine peak splitting but at pressure levels three times greater
than those producing comparable coral sample spectra. The decrease in
peak splitting is interpreted to reflect small increases in
cation~anion distances produced by mechanical energy input during the
shock process. Another parameter, the non-central to central transition
peak amplitude, is observed to decrease with increasing pressure in
spectra of single crystal calcite, and may provide a means of
empirically correlating very low (less than 4.5 GPa) shock pressure
levels in calcite.;
Major Descriptors: *CRATERING EXPLOSIONS ~- SHOCK WAVES; *ROCKS -- SEISMIC

Subject Categories: 450200*
-- Military Technology,
Defense -- Nuclear Explosions & Explosives
10/5/908
00612818

(Item 608 from file: 103)
INS-80-006900; EDB-80-052341

Weaponry,

& National

Title: Spatial relationship of 1l-m equatorial spread F irregularities and

900! 0 8

EFFECTS
Descriptors: CALCITE; CARBONATES; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENIWETOK; HIGH
PRESSURE; HYPERFINE STRUCTURE; MONOCRYSTALS; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; TNT
Broader Terms: ALKALINE EARTH METAL COMPOUNDS; CALCIUM CARBONATES; CALCIUM
COMPOUNDS; CARBON COMPOUNDS; CARBONATES; CHEMICAL EXPLOSIVES; CRYSTALS;
EXPLOSIONS; EXPLOSIVES; ISLANDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MARSHALL ISLANDS;
MICRONESIA; NITRO COMPOUNDS; OCEANIA; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC
NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; RESONANCE

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