Open AccessDensity‐Velocity Relations for Rocks *
Author(s) -
Knopoff L.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
geophysical journal of the royal astronomical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.302
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1365-246X
pISSN - 0016-8009
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-246x.1967.tb02143.x
Subject(s) - scaling , atomic number , atomic mass , scaling law , geology , mineralogy , mathematics , geophysics , physics , geometry , atomic physics
Summary Experimental data of Birch for rocks at 10 kilobars are found to fit an empirical relationship between scaled velocity and scaled density. The scaling factors are functions of the representative atomic number. An empirical relationship is found connecting the representative atomic number and the mean atomic weight.