Fluid impact craters and hypervelocity - high velocity impact experiments in metals and rocks

Open-File Report 63-100
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Abstract

The impact phenomena of hypervelocity and high-velocity projectiles with rock and metal targets are being studied in a cooperative research program conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Ames Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This paper deals with the comparison of: (1) fluid-impact craters produced by water drops impacting water, (2) hypervelocity and high-velocity impact craters produced by impact of steel, aluminum, and polyethylene projectiles with basalt, and (3) hypervelocity and high-velocity impact craters in metals.

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Moore, H., MacCormick, R., and Gault, D.E., 1963, Fluid impact craters and hypervelocity - high velocity impact experiments in metals and rocks: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 63-100, iii, 29 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr63100.

ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)

Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Fluid impact craters and hypervelocity - high velocity impact experiments in metals and rocks
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 63-100
DOI 10.3133/ofr63100
Year Published 1963
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Description iii, 29 p.
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