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Seismology
The study of earthquake, seismic sources, and wave propagation through the Earth.
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transverse
Earth science; Seismology
Seismic waves that arrive entirely horizontal to the great-circle path direction.
radial
Earth science; Seismology
Seismic waves arriving at a station propagating at some angle to the vertical along the great-circle path connecting the source and receiver.
Love waves
Earth science; Seismology
Seismic surface waves with only horizontal shear motion transverse to the direction of propagation.
Rayleigh waves
Earth science; Seismology
Seismic surface waves with ground motion only in the vertical plane containing the direction of propagation of the wave. The particle motion is retrograde elliptical at the surface grading into ...
seismic impedance
Earth science; Seismology
Seismic P-wave velocity multiplied by the bulk density of a medium.
forearc basin
Earth science; Seismology
Sedimentary basin on the trench side of the volcanic arc of a subduction zone.
foreland basin
Earth science; Seismology
Sedimentary basin on the trench side of a continent-continent collision zone.
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