Density-Sound Velocity Relationships for Two Marine Surface Sediment Classes
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-1-1990
Department
Physics and Astronomy
School
Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Abstract
The density to sound velocity dependence of two predominant classes of continental shelf surface sediments [E. L. Hamilton, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 68, 1313–1340 (1980)] can be described as a subclass of Nobes’ cases [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 86, 290–294 (1989)] by the Wood equation [A. B. Wood, ATextbook of Sound (Macmillan, New York, 1941)] or by straight line fits to the Wood equation or the data [Rayborn et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Suppl. 1 80, S113 (1986)]. The results can be used to calculate the surface sediment densities from sound speed measurements and to get estimates of the average grain densities and velocities of the sediments, as well as in choosing model study parameters.
Publication Title
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Volume
87
Issue
5
First Page
2248
Last Page
2251
Recommended Citation
Rayborn, G. H.,
Ioup, J. W.,
Ioup, G. E.
(1990). Density-Sound Velocity Relationships for Two Marine Surface Sediment Classes. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 87(5), 2248-2251.
Available at: https://aquila.usm.edu/fac_pubs/7382