Overview
- Seismic waves, both natural and man-made, reveal much information about the Earths interior, and recent advances expose the limitations of classical theory and analysis
- Reflects the growing realization that the Earths crust contains many irregular components that transmit seismic waves in diverse ways, yet that these irregularities can be detected using advanced analytical methods
- Comprehensive survey of the latest developments in seismic wave propagation and analysis and the first coherent introduction to the theory of scattering
- Focuses on recent developments in the area of seismic wave propagation and scattering through the randomly heterogeneous structure of the Earth, with emphasis on the lithosphere
- Includes discussions and analyses of observations using the latest theoretical methods, assisting the reader to see the practical use of the methods for characterizing the Earth
- Successfully integrates information from different sources to provide a thorough discussion
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing (MASP)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Seismic waves – generated both by natural earthquakes and by man-made sources – have produced an enormous amount of information about the Earth's interior. In classical seismology, the Earth is modeled as a sequence of uniform horizontal layers (or sperical shells) having different elastic properties and one determines these properties from travel times and dispersion of seismic waves. The Earth, however, is not made of horizontally uniform layers, and classic seismic methods can take large-scale inhomogeneities into account. Smaller-scale irregularities, on the other hand, require other methods. Observations of continuous wave trains that follow classic direct S waves, known as coda waves, have shown that there are heterogeneities of random size scattered randomly throughout the layers of the classic seismic model. This book focuses on recent developments in the area of seismic wave propagation and scattering through the randomly heterogeneous structure of the Earth, with emphasis on the lithosphere. The presentation combines information from many sources to present a coherent introduction to the theory of scattering in acoustic and elastic materials and includes analyses of observations using the theoretical methods developed.
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“The book published in 2009 is the second, corrected printing of the original one. Its contents are organized in a lively way so that it is easier to read and follow the discussion, with theoretical models and real examples adequately ‘scattered’ in the whole book. … this second printing will draw renewed and broadened attention from graduate students and researchers, not only in the field of geophysics but also in civil and acoustical engineering.” (Koji Uenishi, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Vol. 167, 2010)Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Seismic Wave Propagation and Scattering in the Heterogenous Earth
Authors: Haruo Sato, Michael C. Fehler
Series Title: Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89623-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-89623-4Published: 17 December 2008
Series ISSN: 2364-4915
Series E-ISSN: 2364-4923
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 308
Number of Illustrations: 164 b/w illustrations
Topics: Geophysics/Geodesy, Complex Systems, Engineering, general, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems