Elastic Waves at the Surface of Separation of Two Solids

摘要: In considering how the energy of a seismic disturbance is dissipated one led to enquire into possibility existence waves, analogous Rayleigh waves and Love that are propagated in interior earth along junction strata, or chiefly within certain stratum, so by internal viscosity without occurrence any appreciable surface displacement. Two surfaces discontinuity density elastic properties commonly believed exist below part earth’s crust which accessible geologists, namely, granitic layer with basic rocks, separation Wiechert metallic core from rocky shell. It becomes interest examine whether wave type can be such an interface; enquiry may also made circumstances if stratum uniform thickness bounded on both sides very deep layers different materials.