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This Book Is An Introductory Text On Seismology Intended For Advanced Undergraduates And Graduate Students. The Author Explains The Fundamental Concepts In Full Detail With Step-by-step Development Of The Mathematics, Although The Book Does Assume A Knowledge Of Vector And Tensor Analysis, Calculus, And Ordinary And Partial Differential Equations, As Well As Of Fundamental Physics, Especially Mechanics And Elasticity Theory.--jacket. 1. Seismology, The Science Of Earthquakes -- 2. Fundamental Equations Of An Elastic Medium -- 3. Elastic Waves -- 4. Normal Mode Theory -- 5. Reflection And Refraction -- 6. Ray Theory. Media Of Constant Velocity -- 7. Ray Theory. Media Of Variable Velocity -- 8. Ray Propagation In A Spherical Medium -- 9. Travel Times And The Structure Of The Earth -- 10. Surface Waves -- 11. Wave Propagation In Layered Media -- 12. Wave Dispersion. Phase And Group Velocities -- 13. Free Oscillations Of The Earth -- 14. Anelasticity And Anisotropy -- 15. Focal Parameters Of Earthquakes -- 16. The Source Mechanism -- 17. The Seismic Moment Tensor -- 18. Models Of Fracture -- 19. Methods Of Determination Of Source Mechanisms -- 20. Seismicity, Seismotectonics, And Seism

Author

Agustín Udías Vallina

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521624787

Subjects

Science, Mathematics, Physics