Rayleigh wave


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Rayleigh wave

n.
A type of seismic surface wave that moves with a rolling motion, causing rock particles to vibrate in directions both perpendicular and parallel to the main direction of wave propagation. Rayleigh waves are slower than Love waves.
[After John William Strutt, Third Baron Rayleigh.]
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Love [3] extended the work of Bromwich investigated the influence of gravity on superfacial waves and showed that the Rayleigh wave velocity is affected by the gravity field.
Propagation of surface waves in non-homogeneous granular medium under the influence of gravity

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