Fin whale in waters off Greenland. Credit: Aqqa Rosing-Asvid via Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0
Fin whale songs illuminate oceanic crustal layers
By Alka Tripathy-Lang
May 4, 2021
Scientists use the songs of fin whales to image different layers of oceanic crust by examining how the songs’ acoustic waves bounce and bend at crustal structures off the Pacific Northwest coast.
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