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Physical properties of marine sediments
John E. Nafe,Charles L. Drake +1 more
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In this paper, it was shown that seafloor sediments that blanket the ocean floor are of widely varying thickness but seismic observations indicate that 200 to 400 meters in the Pacific and one kilometer in the Atlantic are fairly typical values for deep water.Abstract:
: The unconsolidated sediments that blanket the ocean floor are of widely varying thickness but seismic observations indicate that 200 to 400 meters in the Pacific and one kilometer in the Atlantic are fairly typical values for deep water. At present direct observation of these sediments is limited to such samples as may be recovered by dredging or coring operations, for drilling has been carried out only in the shallow waters of the coastal shelves. Knowledge of the physical properties of the great bulk of the sediments deeper than the few tens of feet reached by coring equipment is thus necessarily derived from geophysical observations.read more
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Attenuation of Rayleigh waves along the East Pacific ridge
E. Kausel,F. Schwab +1 more
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Results and Interpretations
TL;DR: In this article, the observed distributions of the ET γ, lepton pT (pT l ), ETmiss, MT, HT, and the number of jets (Njet) in the eγ and μγ channels, together with the stacked background estimations are compared to the background estimation.
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Sedimentation, dredging, and spoil disposal in a subtropical estuarine lagoon
Kenneth J. Hollett,Ralph Moberly +1 more
TL;DR: A comparison of a 1976 bathymetric survey of Kaneohe Bay with that of a 1927 survey indicates an average shoaling of the lagoonal area of 1.0 m as discussed by the authors.