Modeling signal loss in surficial marine sediments containing occluded gas

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1368-1378

  Gardner, Trevor ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; CLAY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAKES; SEISMOLOGY;

OCCLUDED GAS;

SEDIMENTS;

ACOUSTIC METHOD; BUBBLE; GAS; MARINE SEDIMENT; MODELING;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CLAY; GAS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0037336187     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1542731     Document Type: Article

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