Electronic Resource
Oxford, UK
:
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Geophysical journal international
4 (1937), S. 0
ISSN:
1365-246X
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Geosciences
Notes:
A theoretical investigation is made of the changes of the polarization of transverse seismic waves during their propagation through the Earth. The polarizations have been computed theoretically and numerically for reflexion at the core boundary and at the Earth's surface, for refraction and reflexion at the base of the crust and for passages through continuously varying media. It is demonstrated that great changes of the vibration properties (vibration angle and particle orbit) may occur in all cases except for continuously varying media, through which transverse waves propagate with practically unchanged vibration properties. The consequences of these results for earthquake mechanism studies, based on transverse waves, are discussed.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1937.tb07107.x
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