In situ acoustic and laboratory ultrasonic sound speed and attenuation measured in heterogeneous soft seabed sediments: Eel River shelf, California

Marine Geology

Volumn 182, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 103-119

  Gorgas, Thomas J ^a,b   Wilkens, Roy H ^b   Fu, Shung S ^b,e   Neil Frazer, L ^a   Richardson, Mike D ^c   Briggs, Kevin B ^c   Lee, Homa ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e Environmental Management Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Density; Dispersion; Eel River; Porosity; Scattering; Velocity

Indexed keywords

SOUND SPEED;

ACOUSTICS; ATTENUATION; FLOODS; HYDROGEOLOGY; POROSITY; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; ULTRASONICS;

MARINE ENGINEERING;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTY; DELTA; DENSITY; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; POROSITY; VELOCITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037051590     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(01)00230-4     Document Type: Article

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