Overview

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 157. Seismology is one of the few means available to Earth scientists for probing the mechanical structure of the Earth's interior. The advent of modern seismic instrumentation at the end of the 19th century and its installation across the globe was shortly followed by mankind's first general understanding of the Earth's interior: The Croatian seismologist Andrija Mohorovièiæ discovered the crust-mantle boundary in central Europe in 1909, the German Beno Gutenberg determined the radius of the Earth's core in 1913, Great Britian's Sir Harold Jeffreys established its fluid character by 1926, and the Dane Inge Lehman discovered the solid inner core in 1936. It is notable that seismology, even in its earliest days, was an international science. Unlike much of the Earth sciences, seismology has its roots in physics, notably optics (many university seismology programs are, or initially were, attached to meteorology, astronomy, or physics departments), and draws from the literatures of imaging systems and statistical communications theory developed by, or employed in, astronomy, electrical engineering, medicine, ocean acoustics, and nondestructive materials testing. Seismology has close ties to petro-physics and mineral physics, the measurements of the disciplines being compared to infer the chemical and physical structure of the Earth's interior.

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Author:   Alan Levander ,  Guust Nolet
Publisher:   American Geophysical Union
Imprint:   American Geophysical Union
Edition:   illustrated edition
Volume:   157
Dimensions:   Width: 22.10cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 27.20cm
Weight:   0.898kg
ISBN:  

9780875904221

ISBN 10:   087590422
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   14 January 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Preface Alan Levander and Guust Nolet vii I. Aspects of Modern Practices Perspectives on Array Seismology and USArray Alan Levander and Guust Nolet 1 Case Studies of Seismic Tomography and Earthquake Location in a Regional Context William Menke 7 Traveltimes and Amplitudes of Seismic Waves: A Re-assessment Guust Nolet, F. A. Dahlen, and Raffaella Montelli 37 Seismic Tomography With Irregular Meshes Malcolm Sambridge and Nick Rawlinson 49 Surface Wave Tomography Applied to the North American Upper Mantle Suzan van der Lee and Andrew Frederiksen 67 Array Analysis of Two-Dimensional Variations in Surface Wave Phase Velocity and Azimuthal Anisotropy in the Presence of Multipathing Interference Donald W. Forsyth and Aibing Li 81 Imaging Three-Dimensional Anisotropy With Broadband Seismometer Arrays Karen M. Fischer, Aibing Li, Donald W. Forsyth, and Shu-Huei Hung 99 Imaging Earthquake Source Complexity Satoshi Ide, Gregory C. Beroza, and Jeffrey J. McGuire 117 II. Scattered Wave Imaging and Wave Equation Methods Subsurface Imaging of Complex Structures by Reflection Seismic Data Biondo Biondi and Dimitri Bevc 137 Imaging Teleseismic P to S Scattered Waves Using the Kirchhoff Integral Alan Levander, Fenglin Niu, and William W. Symes 149 Direct Imaging of the Coda of Teleseismic P Waves Gary L. Pavlis 1 71 Multichannel Inversion of Scattered Teleseismic Body Waves: Practical Considerations and Applicability Stephane Rondenay, Michael G. Bostock, and Karen M. Fischer 187 The Spectral-Element Method in Seismology Dimitri Komatitsch, Seiji Fsuboi, and Jeroen Tromp 205 Introduction to Radiative Transfer of Seismic Waves Ludovic Margerin 229

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Alan R. Levander received a BS in geology from the University of South Carolina, and an MS (1978) and PhD (1984) in geophysics from Stanford University. He worked as a geophysicist for Gulf Research & Development Co. from 1981 to 1984. Since 1984 he has been a professor in the Geology/Geophysics Dept. at Rice University. His research interests include seismic modeling and processing, and crustal seismology.

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