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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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