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Seismic wave transmission

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As seen in Chapter 6, the total observational evidence available by the end of the nineteenth century could supply a severely limited number of equations of condition on the distribution of the density p in the Earth. Models giving widely different values of p at particular depths were permissible

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    K. E. Bullen M.A.,Se.D.,Hon.D.Se.,F.R.S.

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Bullen, K.E. (1975). Seismic wave transmission. In: The Earth’s Density. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5700-8_8

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