An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes, and Earth Structure

by Michael Wysession, Seth Stein, Michael E. Wysession

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865420785
• ISBN13: 9780865420786
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.6" x 10.9"