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Compliance References

Explanations of compliance and theoretical studies

• Yamamoto, T., and T. Torii (1986). Seabed shear modulus profile inversion using surface gravity (water) wave-induced bottom motion, Geophys. J. R. Astr. Soc., 85, 413-431.
• Trevorrow, M.V., T. Yamamoto, A. Turgut, D. Goodman, and M. Badiey (1989). Very low frequency ocean bottom ambient seismic noise and coupling on the shallow continental shelf, Mar. Geophys. Res., 11, 129-152.
• Crawford, W.C. (1994). Determination of oceanic crustal shear velocity structure from seafloor compliance measurements. Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, San Diego.
• Willoughby, E.C., and R.N. Edwards (1997). On the resource evaluation of marine gas-hydrate deposits using seafloor compliance methods, Geophys. J. Int., 131(3), 751-766.
• Crawford, W.C., S.C. Webb and J.A. Hildebrand (1998). Estimating shear velocities in the oceanic crust from compliance measurements by two-dimensional finite difference modeling. J. Geophys. Res., 103(5), 9895-9916.
  - A 2-D compliance modeling algorithm
• Latychev, Konstantin (2000). Numerical Modeling of Oceanic Crustal Hydrothermal Systems . Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto.
  - Chapters 6 and 7 discuss compliance, describe a 3-D compliance modeling algorithm (assumes static)
• Crawford, W. (2000). Seafloor compliance measurements: applications for hydrocarbon exploration. LITHOS, Cambridge, U.K., University of Cambridge, 151-156.
• Hulme, T., A. Ricolleau, Sara Bazin, W.C. Crawford and S.C. Singh (2003). Shear wave structure from joint analysis of seismic and seafloor compliance data. Geophys. J. Int., 155, 514-520.
  - Shows how compliance can give different velocity results than seismic data because of different sensitivity to anisotropy
• Latychev , K. and R.N. Edwards (2003). On the compliance method and the assessment of three dimensional sea floor gas hydrate deposits. Geophys. J. Int., 155(3), 923-952.
• Crawford, W.C. (2004) The sensitivity of seafloor compliance measurements to sub-basalt sediments. Geophys. J. Int., 157, 1130-1145.
  - what it says
• Hulme, T., W.C. Crawford, and S.C. Singh (2005). The sensitivity of seafloor compliance to two-dimensional low-velocity anomalies. Geophys. J. Int., 163, 547-558.

Experiments using compliance

• Trevorrow, M.V., T. Yamamoto, M. Badiey, A. Turgut, and C. Conner (1988). Experimental verification of sea-bed shear modulus profile inversions using surface gravity (water) wave-induced sea-bed motion, Geophysical Journal, 93, 419-436.
• Yamamoto, T., M.V. Trevorrow, M. Badiey, and A. Turgut (1989). Determination of the seabed porosity and shear modulus profiles using a gravity wave inversion, Geophys. J. Intl., 98(1), 173-182.
• Trevorrow, M.V., and T. Yamamoto (1991). Summary of marine sedimentary shear modulus and acoustic speed profile results using a gravity wave inversion technique, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 90(1), 441-456.
• Crawford, W.C., S.C. Webb and J.A. Hildebrand (1991). Seafloor compliance observed by long-period pressure and displacement measurements. J. Geophys. Res., 96, 16151-16160.
• Nye, T., and T. Yamamoto (1994). Concurrent measurements of the directional spectra of microseismic energy and surface gravity waves, J. Geophys. Res., 99(C7), 14321-14338.
• Crawford, W.C., S.C. Webb and J.A. Hildebrand (1999). Constraints on melt in the lower crust and Moho at the East Pacific Rise, 9°48'N, using seafloor compliance measurements. J. Geophys. Res., 104(2), 2923-2939.
• Willoughby, E.C., and R.N. Edwards (2000). Shear velocities in Cascadia from seafloor compliance measurements, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27(7), 1021-1024, 2000.
• Crawford, W.C. and S.C. Webb (2002). Variations in the distribution of magma in the lower crust and at the Moho beneath the East Pacific Rise at 9°-10°N. Earth Plan. Sci. Lett., 203(1), 117-130.
  - Same site, more data

Things related to measuring compliance

• Webb, S.C. and W.C. Crawford (1999). Long period seafloor seismology and deformation under ocean waves. Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 89(6), 1535-1542.
  - How compliance affects long period seafloor seismology
• Crawford, W.C. and S.C. Webb (2000). Removing tilt noise from low frequency (<0.1 Hz) seafloor vertical seismic data. Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 90(4), 952-963.
  - A potential noise source for compliance measurements, and how to remove it

Related papers

• Beaumont, C., and A. Lambert, (1972). Crustal Structure from surface load tilts, using a finite element model, Geophys. J. R. Astr. Soc., 29 (2), 203-226.
  - Using tides to do "compliance" well before we or Yamamoto did
• Sorrels, G.G., and T.T. Goforth (1973). Low frequency earth motion generated by slowly propagating, partially organized pressure fields, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 63, 1583-1601, 1973.
  - The first formulation of the compliance of a half-space, but many notational errors
• Webb, S.C., X. Zhang and W.C. Crawford (1991). Infragravity waves in the deep ocean. J. Geophys. Res. 96(C2), 2723-2736.