Open AccessSome unsolved BIRPS problems
Author(s) -
Matthews Drummond
Publication year - 1987
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.1987.tb04410.x
Subject(s) - geology , lithosphere , blank , seismology , multiple , measure (data warehouse) , geophysics , tectonics , mathematics , computer science , engineering , data mining , mechanical engineering , arithmetic
Summary. BIRPS has 8000 km of records around Britain that are relevant to the rheology of continents and to faulting of the lithosphere. Problems include the need to measure seismic velocities with better resolution and to eliminate multiples in deep water, the question “Are blank bits of records due to noise increase or to geology?” and the need to know the physics of the origin of deep reflections in order to answer geologists' questions.