TECHNICAL REPORT NO. 3-699 ENGINEERING PROPERTIES OF NUCLEAR CRATERS Report I SITE SELECTION INVESTIGATIONS, WET MEDIUM CRATERING EXPERIMENTS

摘要

Investigations described in this report were conducted to select a site suitable for producing craters in a saturated cohesive medium by small-scale high-energy detonations. According to prescribed criteria, the ideal site would be a large (200 acres or more), cleared, moderately flat tract of Federally owned land characterized by soft, homogeneous clays to a minimum depth of 40 feet.nAn evaluation of the U.S. by physical divisions revealed that suitable sites might occur in four general areas, i.e. (1) the Lake Bonneville area, (2) the Lake Agassiz area, (3) the Great Lakes area, and (4) the Lower Mississippi Valley area.