Portable Sound Velocimeter and Its Application on Unopened Marine Sediment Cores, Liquids, and Solids

Dahlke, H. E.; Southworth, J.

doi:10.1109/tge.1971.271464

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“…Dahlke and Southworth (1971) described a portable sound velocity meter which measures the travel time of an 0.2 to 1 MHz pulse travelling radially through an unsplit core between two springloaded, piezoelectric ceramic disc transducers clamped diametrically to the liner wall. The core diameter is determined simultaneously by a dial micrometer.…”

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An automated full waveform logging system for high-resolution P-wave profiles in marine sediments

Breitzke

Spieβ

1993

Mar Geophys Res

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Abstract. An automated, PC-based logging system has been developed to investigate marine sediment cores by full waveform transmission seismograms. High-resolution P-wave velocity and amplitude attenuation profiles are simultaneously derived from the transmission data to characterize the acoustic properties of the sediment column.A pair of ultrasonic, piezoelectric wheel probes is used to generate and record the transmission signals travelling radially through the sediment core. Both unsplit and split cores are allowed. Mounted in a carriage driven by a stepping motor via a shaft the probes automatically move along the core liner, stopping at equidistant spacings to provide a quasi-continuous inspection of the core by the transmission data. The axial travel distance and the core diameter are determined by digital measuring tools.First arrivals are picked automatically from the transmission seismograms using either a threshold in the seismogram's envelope or a cross-correlation algorithm taking the 'zero-offset' signal of both wheel probes into account. Combined with the core diameter these first arrivals lead to a P-wave velocity profile with a relative precision of l to 2 m s ~. Simultaneously, the maximum peak-topeak amplitudes of the transmission seismograms are evaluated to get a first idea on the amplitude attenuation along the sediment core.Two examples of gravity cores taken during a recent cruise of R.V. METEOR in the Western Equatorial Atlantic are presented. They yield that the P-wave profiles can be used for locating strong and fine-scale lithological changes, e.g. turbidite layers and slight variations in the sand, silt or clay content. In addition, the transmission seismograms and their amplitude spectra obviously seem to reveal a correlation between the relative amount of low-frequency spectral components and the sediment grain size, and thus provide a tool for the determination of additional, related physical or sedimentological parameters in future investigations.

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