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Earth science
Any of several geological sciences that are concerned with the earth, its origins, and all of its various structures and physical forms and phenomena.
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transfer function
Earth science; Seismology
Predescribed rules that distort a seismogram in terms of the series of filters that make up the signal. For example, every recording instrument has a known transfer function that ...
pedogenic
Earth science; Seismology
Pertaining to processes that add, transfer, transform, or remove soil constituents.
continental shelf
Earth science; Seismology
Part of the continental margin between the coast and the continental slope.
outer core
Earth science; Seismology
Outer liquid shell of the Earth's core, probably iron with some oxygen; inner radius, 1221 kilometers, outer radius, 3480 kilometers.
checkerboard test
Earth science; Seismology
One type of resolution test that can be performed by varying the velocity as a sinusoidal function in the x and y directions with a wavelength larger than the distance between two ...
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