Published October 1959
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A comment on the flattening of the group velocity curve of mantle Rayleigh waves with periods about 500 sec.
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A scale-ratio consideration and a calculation on statical deformations of the earth by surface loads suggest that the flattening of the group velocity curve of mantle Rayleigh waves with periods about 500 sec. is not due to the existence of the earth's core, as has been suggested.
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Copyright © 1959, by the Seismological Society of America. Manuscript received for publication February 24, 1959. This study was carried out at the Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. The author wishes to thank Dr. F. Press for the opportunity to visit there and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for financial support.Attached Files
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- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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