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Earthquake surface waves and crustal structure
Frank Press and William Maurice Ewing
Earthquake surface waves and crustal structure (in Poldervaart, A., ed., Crust of the earth--a symposium)
Special Paper - Geological Society of America (July 1955): 51-60
Earthquake surface waves and crustal structure (in Poldervaart, A., ed., Crust of the earth--a symposium)
Special Paper - Geological Society of America (July 1955): 51-60
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Abstract
Crustal structure under continents and oceans as revealed by the most recent Rayleigh and Love wave dispersion data is described. These surface-wave determinations are concordant with the principal results from seismic-refraction measurements. Since surface-wave studies lead to average properties of the crust across areas of continental or oceanic dimensions they provide valuable supplementary data to the point-by-point refraction measurements. Regions inaccessible for refraction experiments may be explored by surface-wave methods. The velocity of shear waves in the upper silicic crust of continents deduced from study of the phase Lg is used in the interpretation of surface-wave data.
ISSN: 0072-1077
EISSN: 2331-219X
Coden: GSAPAZ
Serial Title: Special Paper - Geological Society of America
Title: Earthquake surface waves and crustal structure
Title: Poldervaart, A., ed., Crust of the earth--a symposium
Pages: 51-60
Published: 195507
Text Language: English
Publisher: Geological Society of America (GSA),
Boulder, CO,
United States
DOI:
10.1130/SPE62-p51
Accession Number: 1959-024776
Categories: Seismology
Document Type: Serial
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
Illustration Description: illus.
Source Note: 62
Country of Publication: United States
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2017, American Geosciences Institute. Reference includes data from Bibliography and Index of North American Geology, U. S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States
Update Code: 1959
