Q of the Earth

An application of normal mode theory to the retrieval of structural parameters and source mechanisms from seismic spectra

1975 • 1,067 citations

Velocity dispersion due to anelasticity; implications for seismology and mantle composition

1976 • 815 citations

Attenuation of seismic energy in the upper mantle

1965 • 414 citations

Importance of physical dispersion in surface wave and free oscillation problems: Review

1977 • 308 citations

Tectonics, seismicity and structure of the Afro-Eurasian junction — the breaking of an incoherent plate

1976 • 290 citations

The anelasticity of the Earth

1964 • 246 citations

An Earth Model based on free oscillations and body waves

1976 • 243 citations

Earth Structure from Free Oscillations and Travel Times

1974 • 226 citations

Velocity and Q of mantle waves

1970 • 200 citations

Simultaneous determination of the seismic moment and attenuation of seismic surface waves

1969 • 184 citations

Observations of the free oscillations of the Earth

1961 • 173 citations

Upper mantle shear structure

1974 • 159 citations

Observations of Normal Modes from 84 Recordings of the Alaskan Earthquake of 1964 March 28

1972 • 143 citations

Measurements and interpretation of normal mode attenuation

1978 • 141 citations

Attenuation of body waves and theQstructure of the mantle

1968 • 135 citations

Attenuation models of the earth

1978 • 131 citations

The Anelasticity of the Inner Core

1974 • 113 citations

A velocity structure of the Earth's core

1971 • 97 citations

Attenuation of shear waves in the upper and lower mantle

1964 • 95 citations

Shear velocities at the base of the mantle from observations ofSandScS

1973 • 89 citations

Observed attenuation andQvalues of seismic surface waves in the upper mantle

1965 • 85 citations

On the Structure of the Low Velocity Zone

1973 • 82 citations

Spectrum ofPandPcPin relation to the mantle-core boundary and attenuation in the mantle

1967 • 80 citations

The Earth as a Seismic Absorption Band

1977 • 72 citations

The effect of attenuation on gross earth models

1977 • 69 citations

PKJKP

1972 • 68 citations

Amplitude studies of core phases

1973 • 66 citations

ATTENUATION IN THE MANTLE AND RIGIDITY OF THE CORE FROM MULTIPLY REFLECTED CORE PHASES

1964 • 66 citations

Comments on ‘The damping of core waves’ by Anthony Qamar and Alfredo Eisenberg

1976 • 65 citations

Spectrum of short-period core phases in relation to the attenuation in the mantle

1967 • 65 citations

The Anelasticity of the Mantle*

2010 • 64 citations

Seismic wave attenuation in the crust

1964 • 61 citations

Surface-wave attenuation and crustal anelasticity in Central North America

1973 • 59 citations

Phase velocity and Q of mantle Rayleigh waves

1979 • 56 citations

Improved resolution of complex eigenfrequencies in analytically continued seismic spectra

1978 • 51 citations

Attenuative dispersion and frequency shifts of the earth's free oscillations

1976 • 51 citations

A direct measurement of the Earth's short-period attenuation along a teleseismic ray path

1972 • 48 citations

The anelasticity of the mantle

1972 • 48 citations

The damping of core waves

1974 • 46 citations

Periods and Damping of Free Oscillations Observed in France after Sixteen Earthquakes

1976 • 45 citations

Earthquakes that look like Explosions

1974 • 43 citations

Mantle Rayleigh wave dispersion and tectonic provinces

1972 • 40 citations

Damping of S Waves

1965 • 39 citations

Spectrum and attenuation of multiply reflected core phases.

1975 • 39 citations

High-Q Overtone Modes of the Earth

1971 • 33 citations

Q Distribution for Long-Period P Waves in the Mantle

1968 • 33 citations

An investigation of the earth's free oscillations

1961 • 31 citations

Attenuation of Teleseismic Body Waves

1965 • 31 citations

Shear velocity and density of an attenuating earth

1976 • 29 citations

Multiple inner core reflections from a Novaya Zemlya explosion

1972 • 27 citations

Spherical Oscillations of the Earth*

2010 • 26 citations

Inversion of the attenuation data of free oscillations of the Earth (fundamental and first higher modes)

1977 • 25 citations

Attenuation of seismic waves of very low frequency

1975 • 21 citations

Measurement ofQvalues from the free oscillations of the Earth

1968 • 20 citations

Attenuation measurements of split normal modes for the 1960 Chilean and 1964 Alaskan earthquakes

1978 • 18 citations

The Determination of P-wave Attenuation Values in the Earth's Mantle

1974 • 13 citations

On the Forms of S and ScS Waves of Some Deep Earthquakes

1962 • 13 citations

Shear-wave travel times and amplitudes for two well-constrained earthquakes

1978 • 11 citations

On the Problem of Compatibility of Surface Wave Data, Q and Body Wave Travel Times

1967 • 10 citations

Seismic-wave propagation in two-phase media and its application to the earth's interior

1972 • 9 citations

The Damping of S Waves

2010 • 8 citations

Rayleigh wave group velocities and attenuation coefficients

1977 • 7 citations

Characteristic periods and Q for oscillations of the earth following an intermediate-focus earthquake.

1974 • 6 citations

Excitation and attenuation of love waves in North America from the November 9, 1968 south central Illinois earthquake.

1975 • 4 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations