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At a horizontal interface, we assume a displacement-stress vector whose
variables are continuous across the interface , where is
the velocity, and represents the
vertical component of the stress tensor. This vector can be divided
into
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(10) |
where the elements of F are
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(11) |
and the elements of the vector are a function of the wave
amplitudes, as follows:
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(12) |
To calculate the amplitude partitioning at an interface between two
layers we equate the displacement-stress vector across the interface,
thus:
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(13) |
Translating the coordinate frame so that the interface is at z=0,
the exponential terms in w are the same in both layers, and we can
write equation (13) as
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(14) |
giving a general relation between the up-going and down-going wave
systems in the two media. If we partition so that
is a vector of the amplitudes of
down-going waves and of up-going
waves, we can write the block-matrix equation as
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(15) |
In order to calculate the up-going reflected wavefield and the
down-going transmitted wavefield for a downward propagating wavefield
incident on the boundary from above, we need to solve the system
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(16) |
After some manipulation, we obtain Nichols (1991)
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(17) |
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where
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(18) |
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The matrices RD and TD convert the vector of
down-going wave amplitudes in layer 1 into a vector of up-going
reflected wave amplitudes in layer 1 and a vector of down-going
transmitted amplitudes in layer 2. The next section studies the PP
wave reflection amplitudes given by the first column, first row
element in matrix RD.
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11/12/1997