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Shear Wave Velocity in Unconsolidated Marine Sediments of the Western Continental Margin, the East Sea  

Kim, Gil-Young (Research Institute of Marine Science & Technology, Korea Maritime University)
Kim, Dae-Choul (Department of Environmental Exploration Engineering, Pukyong National University)
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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea / v.22, no.4E, 2003 , pp. 167-175 More about this Journal
Abstract
Shear wave velocity was measured and grain size analysis was conducted on two core samples obtained in unconsolidated marine sediments of the western continental margin, the East Sea. A pulse transmission technique based on the Hamilton frame was used to measure shear wave velocity. Duomorph ceramic bender transducer-receiver elements were used to generate and detect shear waves in sediment samples. Time delay was calculated by changing the sample length from the transducer-receiver element. Time delay is 43.18 μs and shear wave velocity (22.49 m/s) is calculated from the slope of regression line. Shear wave velocities of station 1 and 2 range from 8.9 to 19.0 m/s and from 8.8 to 22 mis, respectively. Shear wave velocities with depth in both cores are qualitatively in agreement with the compared model〔1〕, although the absolute value is different. The sediment type of two core samples is mud (mean grain size, 8-9Φ). Shear wave velocity generally increases with sediment depth, which is suggesting normally consolidated sediments. The complicated variation of velocity anisotropy with depth at station 2 is probably responsible for sediment disturbance by possible gas effect.
Keywords
Shear wave velocity; Velocity anisotropy; Unconsolidated marine sediments; Continental margin; the East Sea;
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