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Originally Posted by jlhredshift
Can vaporization occur outside the radius of the crater and what if it was an airburst?
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If the crater is in basalt, but there is a big thin sheet of dry ice a few crater radii away from ground zero, you can expect there will be some vaporization outside the crater... it all depends on how much energy is required to vaporize any given material.
Air bursts still transfer energy, but the formula for crater radius and depth becomes more complicated. It is still basically based on the volume to be vaporized, but also includes factors having to do with lost energy in other directions.