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Acoustic properties of the seafloor play a dominant role in the propagation of sound in the sea, especially where the water is shallow. However, because of observational as well as experimental difficulties, effects of shear wave on sound propagation within the seafloor have often been neglected, so that the description of compressional and shear properties of bottom sediments is incomplete, and computations of, for example, bottom reflection loss become less accurate.
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Yuan-bo, L., Bo, L., Wong, H.K. (1994). Acoustic Discrimination of Seafloor Properties. In: Di, Z., Yuan-Bo, L., Cheng-Kui, Z. (eds) Oceanology of China Seas. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0862-1_54
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