Effects of low flying aircraft on archaeological structures
By: James C. Battis
Series: AFGL-TR -- 88-0263; Environmental research papers -- no. 1013; Environmental research papers (Hanscom AFB, Mass.) -- no. 1013
Publisher: Air Force Geophysics Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Hanscom AFB, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 49
Subjects: Longhouses; Pueblo architecture; Pueblo Indians; Antiquities; Vibration; Measurement
Description: Induced vibrations from aircraft overflights were measured at Long House, an Anasazi Indian site dating from approximately AD 1300. Aircraft overflights were performed by RF-4C, A-7, and B-52 aircraft at altitudes ranging from 60 to over 300 meters AGL. Seismometers on the Long House structure recorded the site response. None of the overflights produced site responses exceeding established criteria for archaeological sites, taken to be a peak vector sum wall velocity of 1.3 mm/sec.
Notes: Title from cover.

"26 September 1988."

"Earth Sciences Division project 7600."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 49).