Birch's law
Linear relation between compressional wave velocity and the density of rocks and minerals / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Birch's law, discovered by the geophysicist Francis Birch, establishes a linear relation between compressional wave velocity vp and density of rocks and minerals:
where is the mean atomic mass in formula units and is an empirical function determined by experiment.[1][2][3]