Professor Seth Stein Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Room F498, 2145 Sheridan Road Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-3130 Telephone: (847) 491-5265 FAX:(847) 491-8060 email: seth AT earth.northwestern.edu (substitute "@" for AT)
http://www.earth.northwestern.edu/people/seth/
Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes, & Earth Structure
by S. Stein & M. Wysession, 2002, ISBN: 978-0-86542-078-6,
512 pages, September 2002, Wiley-Blackwell
Description
An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes and Earth Structures is an introduction to seismology and its role in the earth sciences, and is written for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students.
The fundamentals of seismic wave propagation are developed using
a physical approach and then applied to show how refraction,
reflection, and teleseismic techniques are used to study the
structure and thus the composition and evolution of the earth. The
book shows how seismic waves are used to study earthquakes and are
integrated with other data to investigate the plate tectonic
processes that cause earthquakes. Figures, examples, problems, and
computer exercises teach students about seismology in a creative
and intuitive manner. Necessary mathematical tools including vector
and tensor analysis, matrix algebra, Fourier analysis, statistics
of errors, signal processing, and data inversion are introduced
with many relevant examples. The text also addresses the
fundamentals of seismometry and applications of seismology to
societal issues. Special attention is paid to help students
visualize connections between different topics and view seismology
as an integrated science.
An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes, and Earth Structure gives an excellent overview for students of geophysics and tectonics, and provides a strong foundation for further studies in seismology.
Table of Contents
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
1 Introduction. 2 Basic Seismological Theory. 3 Seismology and Earth Structure. 4 Earthquakes. 5 Seismology and Plate Tectonics. 6 Seismograms as Signals. 7 Inverse Problems. Appendix: Mathematical and and Computational Background. Reference. Solutions to selected odd-numbered problems. Index. Author Information
Seth Stein is Professor of Geological Sciences at
Northwestern University. He has received the James B Macelwane
Medal of the American Geophysical Union, been elected a Fellow of
the American Geophysical Union and Geological Society of America,
and named to the Institute for Scientific Information Highly Cited
Researchers list. He served as Scientific Director of the
University Navstar Consortium and on the Incorporated Research
Institutions for Seismology's Executive Committee, and started
Northwestern's Environmental Science program.
Michael Wysession is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University. He is the recipient of the Packard Foundation and NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowships for his research into the structure of the Earth's deep interior. | |||
Blackwell Publishing, 2003
Ordering Information
An Introduction to Seismology,
Earthquakes, and Earth Structure is available from Blackwell
Publishing.
Homework Solutions
Instructors can access the homework problems here
with a user name and password. To gain access, contact the authors.
Seth Stein: seth@earth.northwestern.edu Michael Wysession: michael@wucore.wustl.edu |
See ERRATA
for an updated list of typographical and other errors found in the text.
(Explanation of formats)
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