The principal objective of this work has been to develop a set of mechanical, remote-sensing tools that will permit the determination of the main geotechnical variables that control mine burial in the bottom. These variables include the shear strength of both soft, fine-grained sediments and coarser, dilative granular sediments. A further objective is to understand better the response of typica...

In recent years surface waves have found wide applications in various seismological studies of a very different scale. We present a brief description of our recent results in regional surface wave tomography of continents, in applying these results for nuclear tests monitoring purposes, and in studying shear-velocity structure of soft sediments below sea bottom. 4:20–4:50 Edo Nyland Univ. of Al...