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A possible layer for the transmission of fast P waves from surface disturbances

Wood, Harry O. (1948) A possible layer for the transmission of fast P waves from surface disturbances. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 38 (1). pp. 33-39. ISSN 1943-3573. doi:10.1785/bssa0380010033. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20220214-612221000

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Abstract

Unless the principle of isostasy is rejected, in all its somewhat variant forms, there is some minimum depth beneath the surface of the land and sea, a relatively small depth, where the pressure due to the superincumbent rock, water, and atmosphere is the same everywhere.


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Additional Information:© 1948 by the Seismological Society of America. Manuscript received for publication, July 14, 1947. The writer wishes to make acknowledgments to J. A. Anderson, L. H. Adams, B. Gutenberg, and C. F. Richter, who have read the manuscript and made critical suggestions, and to G. D. Louderback and P. Byerly also, but none of them should bear any responsibility for any shortcomings which remain.
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Official Citation:Harry O. Wood; A possible layer for the transmission of fast P waves from surface disturbances. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 1948; 38 (1): 33–39. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/BSSA0380010033
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