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A method, using seismic data, is presented for the mapping of the irregular boundary of an elastic half-space. It furnishes the shape of the corrugations in terms of the measured displacement field generated by plane dilatational or shear waves reflected from the boundary.
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H. Deresiewicz andB. Wolf,The effect of boundaries on wave propagation in a liquid-filled porous solid: VIII. Reflection of plane waves at an irregular boundary, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am.54 (1964), 1547–1561.
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Support of this investigation by the National Science Foundation under grant NSF-GP-2722 is gratefully acknowledged.
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Wolf, B., Deresiewicz, H. On mapping an irregular boundary by means of reflected-wave measurements. PAGEOPH 72, 13–16 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00875687
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00875687