Seismic Anisotropy in the Earth

by V Babuska and M Cara

Structural geologists are well aware of the fact that isotropic rocks are quite exceptional in nature. Whicheverorigin, sedimentary, metamorphicormagmatic, rocks are shaped with a plane of mineral flattening, the foliation in geologists' jargon, and with a line ofmineral elongation, the lineation. Just like a good quarryman, a trained structural geologistwill detectapreferredorientationin an apparently isotropic granite. Preferred mineral orientation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9401055963
• ISBN13: 9789401055963
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"