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Nafe—Drake relationship

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | 319 words | Copyright

Nafe—Drake relationship An empirical relationship between the P-wave velocity and density of water-saturated sediments and sedimentary rocks. It is commonly used to evaluate the density of sedimentary rocks in shallow seismic surveys, but errors of the order of 100 kg/m3 are involved. See also DENSITY OF ROCKS.

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