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Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America; January 1956; v. 46; no. 1; p. 47-56
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The attentuation of compression waves in lossy media*

L. KNOPOFF

INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

Abstract

By means of modeling experiments on a wax slab, oil-coupled lithium sulfate transducers are found to have excellent directional properties as seismic modeling transducers. Investigation of the several orders of multiple reflection amplitudes shows that consistency in the measured reflection coefficients for the spherical wave fronts is easily achieved if a loss mechanism of the internal viscosity type is attributed to the wax.

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* Manuscript received for publication February 16, 1955.




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