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The propagation of Love and Rayleigh waves with any smooth front in an arbitrary layered medium close to an isotropic half-space is considered. The first order ray approximation is used for a description of anomalies of such waves. Bibliography 8 titles.
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Translated fromZapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 186, pp. 134–135, 1990.
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Kirpichnikova, N.Y., Kiselev, A.P. On the anomalous polarization of Love and Rayleigh elastic waves in a layered medium. J Math Sci 73, 383–384 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02362824
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02362824