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Subject: Seismic Wave Interpretation
From: "Bob Hancock" robert.hancock@...........
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 19:30:47 -0400


The lack of available manuals on seismic wave interpretation is frustrating.
I recently purchased three books from Amazon which people in this group may
be interested.

	THE SEISMIC WAVEFIELD - VOL 1  Introduction and Theoretical Development
		by B. L. N. Kennett - Research School of Earth Sciences - The Australian
National University
		Published  2002		ISBN  0 521 00663 5
		$36.00

	THE SEISMIC WAVEFIELD = VOL II   Interpretation of Seismograms on Regional
and Global Scales
		by B. L. N. Kennett - Research School of Earth Sciences - The Australian
National University
		Published  2002		ISBN  0 521 00665 1
		$55.00

	SEISMIC WAVES AND SOURCES
		by Ari Ben-Menahem and Sarva Jit Singh
		Published 1981, Revised 2000   		ISBN 0 486 40461 7
		$27.97

The Seismic Wavefield Vol I & II, appear to have significant amounts of
information, that a non-seismologist could digest.  However, both books also
have a fair amount of mathematical formulas in them, but I have found that
the text is laid out so I can by-pass the math, and continue with the text.
This makes the books appear to me, a non-seismologist and non-mathematician,
to be useful to others in my same category.

Seismic Waves and Sources is VERY HEAVY in mathematics, and I will probably
reserve it for another life when I have a degree in mathematics and/or
physics.

All of the books appears to be aimed at a graduate level seismologist, but
least I was able to read the text in Seismic Wavefield, and make sense of
it.

If any of the "real" seismologists who are part of the group could get a
look at the books, I am certain they could supply better comments that I
have made.

Another source for learning about seismic waves is the SEISWAVE program
written by Dr. Alan L Jones PhD, at Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY.
The program SEISWAVE can be downloaded from the following site:

	http://www.geol.binghamton.edu/faculty/jones/

Bob Hancock


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