Modern oceanography is founded on the curiosity and interest of the naturalist with a bent for things marine who, in pursuing understanding of plants and animals of the oceans, has appreciated the need for comparable understanding of their physical and chemical environment. It is also founded on the interest of the physicist who from time to time has been called in to help provide for a human need: to sound ocean depths for laying cables, to make more reliable fog signals, or to avoid icebergs or deal with submarines. Some of the latter have become interested in the oceans or in the physics of the earth beneath for their own sake. No matter what their individual background, main physicists have found fascination in the science of the ocean.
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November 1965
November 01 1965
Sound reflections in and under oceans
Since World War II, when many physicists contributed to the development of underwater acoustics, oceanographers have studied marine animals with sound‐scattering techniques and have used seismic reflections to map sedimentary layers deep beneath the ocean floor. The author presented the paper on which this article is based as an invited address at the 8th annual meeting of the Corporate Associates of the American Institute of Physics on September 30.
J. B. Hersey
J. B. Hersey
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Cape Cod
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Physics Today 18 (11), 17–24 (1965);
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J. B. Hersey; Sound reflections in and under oceans. Physics Today 1 November 1965; 18 (11): 17–24. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3046990
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