Abstract
To the Editor: In his paper in the April and July 1942 issues of GEOPHYSICS, Dr. Sharpe gives a very enlightening analytic solution to the problem of the wave motion generated in an elastic medium by application of a pressure of arbitrary form to the interior surface of a spherical cavity. It is very encouraging to find that deductions regarding the relation of the amplitude and frequency of the generated wave to the physicai characteristics of the medium agree so well with empirical operation. A thorough understanding of the explosion process and its accompanying wave phenomena is a prerequisite to the final refinement of the seismograph as a tool of Exploration Geophysics. It is to be hoped that Dr. Sharpe and his colleagues, as well as others, will continue the combined analytic and experimental attack.
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