Shear Waves in Marine Sediments Breitscheidstr. 10 The explosion of information published Pathologisches Institut der Universität The explosion of information published these days in the primary research literature represents in some ways a substantial barrier to the new investigator or researcher crossing over traditional boundaries between fields Euripides' Bakchen und die moderne Literaturwissenschaft For example water column acousticians view the seafloor sediment as the lower boundary of their domain and are interested in shear and interface waves in the near bottom sediments mainly from the standpoint of how they influence absorption and reflection at this boundary In some cases interest is focused on large amplitude waves of low frequency such as those associ ated with earthquakes and nuclear explosions