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Lateral Electromagnetic Waves: Theory and Applications to Communications, Geophysical Exploration, and Remote Sensing

By Ronold W. P. King , Margaret Owens , Tai Tsun Wu (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York
Year
1992
ISBN
978-1-4613-9176-0, 978-1-4613-9174-6, 1461391741, 1461391768
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4613-9174-6
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
9 MB (8989616 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
746\771
Library
kolxo3
DPI
600
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-11-04 21:00:00
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Description

The propagation of waves along and across the boundary between two media with different characteristic velocities is much more complicated when the source is on or near the boundary than when it is far away and the incident waves are plane. Examples of waves generated by localized sources near a boundary are the electromagnetic waves from the currents in a dipole on the surface of the earth and the seismic waves from a slip event in a fault in the earth's crust like the San Andreas fault in California. Both involve a type of surface wave that is called a lateral wave in electro­ magnetics and a head wave in seismology. Since the two are analogous and the latter is more easily visualized, it is conveniently used here to introduce and describe this important type of surface wave using the data of Y. Ben­ Zion and P. Malin ("San Andreas Fault Zone Head Waves Near Parkfield, CA," Science 251, 1592-1594, 29 March 1991).

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