The domain of existence of prograde Rayleigh-wave particle motion for simple models

Wave Motion

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 556-564

  Malischewsky, Peter G ^a   Scherbaum, Frank ^b   Lomnitz, Cinna ^c   Tuan, Tran Thanh ^a   Wuttke, Frank ^d   Shamir, Gadi ^e  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d BAUHAUS UNIVERSITY WEIMAR   (Germany)

^e Geophysical Survey of Israel   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ellipticity; Prograde motion; Rayleigh waves

Indexed keywords

PHASE VELOCITY; POISSON RATIO; SHEAR WAVES;

ELLIPTICITY; PROGRADE MOTION;

RAYLEIGH WAVES;

PHASE VELOCITY; POISSON RATIO; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SHEAR WAVES;

ELLIPSE; HALF SPACE; PARAMETERIZATION; PHASE VELOCITY; POISSON RATIO; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVE MODELING; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 40649086864     PISSN: 01652125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wavemoti.2007.11.004     Document Type: Article

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