Sastrugi breaking equipment—ripples and waves are often undercut and the surface is hard and unforgiving, with constant minor topographic changes between ridge and trough. The words "sastrugi" and "zastrugi" are Russian-language plurals; the singular is "sastruga" or "zastruga". The form "sastruga" started as the German-language transliteration of the Russian word заструга (plural: заструги). A Latin-type analogica singular "sastrugus" is used in various writings on exploration of the South Pole, including Robert Falcon Scott's expedition's diaries and Ernest Shackleton's "The Heart of the Antarctic". Under the action of steady wind, free snow particles accumulate and drift like the sand grains in barchan
Surface wave inversion dispersion data: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 86, p. 436-444. Kallivokas, L.F., Fathi, A., Kucukcoban, S., Stokoe II, K.H., Bielak, J., Ghattas, O., (2013). Site characterization using full waveform inversion: Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, v. 47, p. 62-82. Foti, S., Lai, C.G., Rix, G.J., and Strobbia, C., (2014). Surface Wave Methods for Near-Surface Site Characterization, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida (USA), 487 pp., <https://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9780415678766> Surface wave inversion Seismic inversion involves the set of methods which seismologists use to infer properties through physical measurements. Surface-wave inversion is the method by which elastic properties, density, and thickness of