terms:wave_train
The response of an elastic system to an acoustic energy impulse describes a wavelet of several cycles of sinusoidal character. At the onset, the wavelet will be rich in all frequencies but the high frequency components are attenuated rapidly by transit through earth materials because of inelastic absorption and conversion to heat. Wavelets are generated for each energy mode and the composite particle motion resulting from the compressional, shear, fluid, and boundary waves becomes the wave train with characteristics of the transmitting source, coupling, and the transmission media. See acoustic wave and wave train display, also Stoneley wave and tube wave.
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