Reflection and transmission from a plane layered core-mantle boundary
- 1 June 1967
- journal article
- Published by Seismological Society of America (SSA) in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
- Vol. 57 (3) , 477-499
- https://doi.org/10.1785/bssa0570030477
Abstract
A class of transfer functions in terms of layer matrices is derived, giving the transmission and reflection of plane harmonic P or S waves incident from either side of a plane layered core-mantle boundary. A computer program coded in complex arithmetic for the IBM 7094 is used to evaluate these functions. Numerical values obtained from five suggested models of the core-mantle boundary are compared and discussed. The aim is to formulate the method, and to establish some general guide, for the studies of the structure of the core-mantle boundary and the affenuation of seismic waves inside the core.Keywords
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