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Leary & Abercrombie 1994
Leary, P. and Abercrombie, R. (1994). Fractal fracture scattering origin of S-wave coda: Spectral evidence from recordings at 2.5 km. Geophysical Research Letters 21: doi: 10.1029/94GL01575. issn: 0094-8276.

Local earthquake seismograms recorded at a depth of 2.5 Km in the Cajon Pass borehole near the San Andreas fault, southern California, yield body-wave and coda-wave amplitude spectra at frequencies between 10 and 200 Hz without interference from either near-surface attenuation or surface waves. The coda-wave spectra resemble the shear-wave source spectra except that above the corner frequencies f0≈20--30 Hz coda spectra decay by power-law exponent n≈-2.3¿0.1 while the source shear-wave spectra decay by cubic power-law (mean power-law exponent n≈-3.1¿0.1). Assuming a cubic source power-law spectra decay, the high frequency power-law enrichment of coda amplitudes relative to source amplitudes implies a power-law distribution of scatterers that increases with frequency as ≈f0.7¿0.1. The distribution of acoustic reflectivity deduced from the Cajon Pass well log has a power-law density ≈&ngr;0.6 at the relevant spatial frequencies &ngr;. The agreement between the thermal and spatial frequency power-law exponents may be explained by first order scattering in fractal fracture-heterogeneous material. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1994

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Keywords
Physical Properties of Rocks, Fracture and flow, Physical Properties of Rocks, Wave attenuation, Seismology, Body waves, Seismology, Structure of the crust
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Geophysical Research Letters
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