Observations of polarized seismoacoustic T waves at and beneath the seafloor in the abyssal Pacific ocean

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3599-3606

  Butler, Rhett ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b IRIS Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; HYDROPHONES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

SEAFLOOR; SEISMOACOUSTIC POLARIZED INTERFACE WAVE (TI); SEISMOACOUSTIC T WAVES; SEISMOMETERS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; EARTHQUAKE; ENERGY; GUATEMALA; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEDIMENT; SOUND; UNITED STATES; VELOCITY;

ACOUSTICS; HUMANS; OBSERVATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; RADIO WAVES;

EID: 33845365150     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2354066     Document Type: Article

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