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A low altitude detonation or a groundburst will cause a crater to form.
Nuclear detonations that take place near the ground (but not underground) will create a mushroom cloud (this is caused by a Raleigh-Taylor instability).
I have noted that a lower level detonation close to the ground will suck up material into the fireball and create a more pronounced stem.
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Which type of necluar detonation creates a huge crater and carries millions of tons of earth into the air in a mushroom cloud?
Many nuclear detonations will create a mushroom cloud (especially near the ground due to material from the ground being sucked up into the vacuum created by the explosion, thus forming a large part of the "stem" of the cloud) and if they are near the ground, will create at least a small crater, but it sounds like you are talking about a groundburst detonation (as opposed to an airburst). These types of explosions carry more radioactive debris from the ground into the air and generate a lot of fallout due to the irradiated debris from the explosion.
What kind of nuclear blast causes a crater a mushroom cloud?
surface burstshallow subsurface burstvery low altitude airburstan optimal depth shallow subsurface burst will produce the biggest crater.even conventional explosives produce mushroom clouds, just proportionally smaller with the smaller yield.
How does the drop height of an object affect the size of the crater it forms?
the higher something is the more potential energy it has. when you drop it that turns into kinetic energy & u gain more momentum. that creates a bigger impact on what the crater hits.
What is a sentence for crater?
There is a crater on the moon.
What is A bowl shaped hole on the surface of a planet or moon that was caused by the impact of meteorite?
This is known as an impact crater. Please see the related link.
What type nuclear detonation creates a huge crater with mushroom cloud?
A nuclear detination
What type of nuclear detonation creates a huge crater and creates a mushroom cloud?
Surface burst
Which type of nuclear detonation creates a huge crater and creates a mushroom cloud?
A shallow subsurface burst.
Which type of nuclear detonation creates a huge crater and carries milions of tons of earth into the air in a mushroom cloud?
Surface Burst
Which type of nuclear detonation creates a huge crater and carries millions of tone of earth into the air in a mushroom cloud?
surface burst
Which type of nuclear detonation creates a huge crater and carries millions of tonsof earth into the air in a mushroom cloud?
Surface burst
Which type of nuclear detonation creates a huge crater and carries millions of tons of earth into the air in a mushroom could?
Any type of nuclear explosion will have this effect.
Which type of nuclear detonation creates a huge crater and carriers millions of tons of earth into the air in the form of a mushroom cloud?
Surface burts
Which cloud type of nuclear detonation creates a huge crater and carries millions of tons of earth onto the air in a mushroom cloud?
Surface
Which type of nuclear detonation creates a huge crater?
Surface Burst
Which type of nuclear detonation creates a huge crater and carries millions of tons of earth of tons of tons of earth into the air in a mushroom choud?
Surface burst
Which type of nuclear detonation creation creates a huge crater and carries millions of tons of earth into the air in a mushroom cloud?
High yield shallow subsurface.
