Empirical relations between elastic wavespeeds and density in the Earth's crust

By T. Brocher. 2005

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Whole-mantle radially anisotropic shear velocity structure from spectral-element waveform tomography (2014, methodology): “VP and ρ nodal values for the crustal layer are scaled from VS following the relations of Brocher (2005), leading to a family of 1-”
Seismic tomography of the southern California crust based on spectral‐element and adjoint methods (2010, methodology): “2007b), and we obtain density (ρ) by empirically scaling V P (Ludwig et al. 1970; Brocher 2005):”
Torsion-balance tests of the weak equivalence principle (2012, background): “The seismic wave velocity and the rock density fall along curves for different classes of rocks [20].”