Abstract
The frequency dependence, or dispersion, of sound speed in marine sediments has been a topic of considerable interest and remains a research topic. While experiments on well-sorted sediments (having a narrow range of grain sizes) show promising concordance with theory, the more typical continental shelf sediments exhibit a rather wide range of grain sizes. A major experimental challenge is to measure in-situ sound speed over a sufficiently wide frequency range, such that the underlying mechanisms (e.g., viscous or friction) that control intrinsic dispersion can be isolated. Broadband 1.8-10 kHz seabed reflection measurements in the TREX13 experiment show a critical angle that is very nearly frequency independent. When effects of wavefront curvature, sound speed gradients, layering, and roughness are taken into account, this observation indicates that sediment sound speed must also be nearly independent of frequency. [Research supported by the ONR Ocean Acoustics Program.]
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