rocality:
-Bitkini Atoll--Arji--Eman.
personnel:
Same 14.
Date:
Aug. 22,
Weather:
1964-~-Sat.
Fair.
Water conditions:
radiation level(s)
Good.
McClin--The maximum average radiation level
for all the islands was 0.34 mr/hr at ground level for B~y
radiation.
Studies started yesterday afternoon on the Arji-Eman chain
of islands were continued today.
Gessel:
“The general surface terrain of Arji Island indi-
cates it had been graded,
turbed part remains.
island.
An airstrip,
camp,
etc.,
roads,
so that no undigsetc.
covered the
In its abandoned state, vegetation is returning.
serschmidia,
showing varying degrees of vigor,
Mes-
covers the airstrip.
The islands swarm with Coenobita; they even attack the Messerschmidia,
feeding on the bark and roots.
dence of this.
Many trees show evi-
The food supply must be very low-level to force
them to eat bark."
Eman Island,
a number of tests.
pronounced.
at the west end of the chain,
plants,
was the site of
The destruction of the land and vegetation is
Crater areas are still largely devoid of higher
es
toe
- ter age’
2d
tes
ale
Hn
.
leveled, dyked,
but do have algae.
Great differences in vigor of plants
ig evident and must be related to degree of soil destruction.
The
area is on the way back with both coconuts and pandanus beginning
to be established.
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