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Earth-flattening procedure for the propagation of Rayleigh wave

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The propagation of Rayleigh waves in the earth is investigated in the period range of about 60 to 590 seconds. It has been shown that a set of earth-flattening approximations can be used to transform the heterogeneous spherical earth into plane-layered earth on which the dispersion computations by matrix method can be applied effectively to describe the fundamental mode of spheroidal oscillations involving the crust and the mantly only.

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Biswas, N.N. Earth-flattening procedure for the propagation of Rayleigh wave. PAGEOPH 96, 61–74 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00875629

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