Acoustic Compressional Wave Velocity as a Predictor of Glacio-marine Sediment Grain Size

Geotechnical Testing Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 267-273

  Moran, Kathryn ^a   Altmann, Veith ^b   O'Regan, Matthew ^a   Ashmankas, Cristin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

acoustic compressional wave velocity; bulk density; grain size; marine sediment; nondestructive testing; porosity

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ACOUSTICS; GRAIN REFINEMENT; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; SEDIMENTS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; WAVE PROPAGATION; GLACIERS; MARINE ENGINEERING; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; POROSITY;

ACOUSTIC COMPRESSIONAL WAVE VELOCITY; BULK DENSITY; COMPRESSIONAL WAVE VELOCITY; FINE GRAINED; GRAINSIZE; MARINE SEDIMENTS; MEASUREMENTS OF; NON-DESTRUCTIVE MEASUREMENT; SEDIMENT GRAIN SIZE; SIZE RANGES;

NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY;

ACOUSTIC COMPRESSIONAL WAVE VELOCITY; BULK DENSITY; COARSE-GRAINED SEDIMENTS; MARINE SEDIMENTS;

EID: 34748926484     PISSN: 01496115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/GTJ100228     Document Type: Article

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