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Seismic Wave Propagation and Scattering in the Heterogeneous Earth

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  • © 1998
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Authors:
  1. Haruo Sato

    1. Tohoku University Dept. Geophysics, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

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  2. Michael C. Fehler

    1. Planetary Sciences Earth Resources Lab., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dept. Earth, Atmospheric &, Cambridge, USA

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  • 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.
  • It 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.

Part of the book series: Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing (MASP)

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Keywords

  • Acoustics
  • Heterogenous earth
  • Propagation and scattering
  • Seismic waves

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. Written for advanced undergraduates or beginning graduate students of geophysics or planetary sciences, this book should also be of interest to civil engineers, seismologists, acoustical engineers, and others interested in wave propagation through inhomogeneoud elastic media.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Tohoku University Dept. Geophysics, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

    Haruo Sato

  • Planetary Sciences Earth Resources Lab., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dept. Earth, Atmospheric &, Cambridge, USA

    Michael C. Fehler

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Seismic Wave Propagation and Scattering in the Heterogeneous Earth

  • Authors: Haruo Sato, Michael C. Fehler

  • Series Title: Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-7457-5Published: 27 July 2012

  • Series ISSN: 2364-4915

  • Series E-ISSN: 2364-4923

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 308

  • Number of Illustrations: 59 b/w illustrations

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