Overview

Although highly theoretical and computer-orientated, seismic tomography has created spectacular images of anomolies within the Earth with dimensions of thousands of kilometers to few tens of meters. These images have enabled Earth scientists working on diverse areas to attack fundamental problems relating to the deep dynamical processes within our planet. Additionally, this technique is being used extensively to study the Earth's hazardous regions such as earthquake fault zones and volcanoes, as well as features beneficial to man such as oil or mineral-bearing structures. This book has been written by world experts and describes the theories, experimental and analytical procedures and results of applying seismic tomography from global to purely local scale. It represents the collective global perspective on the state of the art and focusses not only on the theoretical and practical aspects, but also on the uses for hydrocarbon, mineral and geothermal exploitation. Students and researchers in the Earth sciences, and research and exploration geophysicists should find this a useful, practical reference book for all aspects of their work.

Full Product Details

Author:   H.M. Iyer ,  K. Hirahara
Publisher:   Chapman and Hall
Imprint:   Chapman and Hall
Weight:   1.770kg
ISBN:  

9780412371905

ISBN 10:   0412371901
Pages:   864
Publication Date:   May 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Overview, Keiiti Aki; mathematical introduction to seismic tomography, W.H.K. Lee and V. Pereyra; waveform inversion of long-period seismic data for global structure, Xiang-Dong Li and Toshiro Tanimoto; global inversions using normal modes and long-period surface waves, Roel Snieder; surface wave tomography - velocity and Q, Ichiro Nakanishi; teleseismic tomography - global modelling, Hiroshi Inoue; teleseismic tomography - core-mantle boundary, Andrea Morelli; iterative strategies for nonlinear travel-time tomography using global earthquake data, Wim Spakman; solving large linearized tomographic problems, Guust Nolet; imaging the upper mantle with partitioned nonlinear waveform inversion, Guust Nolet; teleseismic imaging of the western United States upper mantle structure using simultaneous iterative reconstruction technique, Kenneth Dueker, et al; seismic tomography of China, F. Liu and A. Jin; teleseismic-wave tomography of Italy, Alessandro Amato, et all; teleseismic tomography of continental rift zones, Paul M. Davis, et al; teleseismic tomography - lithospheric structure of the San Andres fault system, Harley M. Benz and George Zandt; imaging volcanoes using teleseismic tomography, H.M. Iyer and P.B. Dawson; tomography using both local earthquakes and teleseisms - velocity and anisotropy - theory, K. Hirahara; tomography of subduction zones using local and regional earthquakes and teleseisms, K. Hirahara and Akiko hasemi; local earthquake tomography - velocities and Vp/Vs - theory, Clifford H. Thurber; tomography in zones of collision - practical considerations and examples, Steven W. Roecker; local earthquake tomography - earthquake source regions, Donna Eberhart-Phillips; local tomography - volcanoes and accretionary plate boundary Iceland, Gillian R. Foulger and And Stuart Arnott; local earthquake tomography - attenuation - some theory and results, C.O. Sanders; active high resolution (NeHT) tomography - velocity and Q, J.R. Evans and J.J. Zucca; refraction and wide-angle reflection tomography - theory and results, Robert L. Nowack and Lawrence W. Braile; seismic tomography in marine refraction experiments, James s. MClain; tomography using waveform fitting of body-waves, Albert Tarantola, et al; controlled-source tomography for mining and engineering applications, N.R. Goulty.

Reviews

The coverage is thorough and provides an up-to-date overview of current activity.... The editors have succeeded in getting a much more extensive dicussion of the reliability of results than is usually encountered. - Nature; comprehensive and well-illustrated... demonstrates that seismologists, with their internal exploration techniques, are in the process of becoming the 'doctors of the Earth' - Geotechnique; The book, with its well illustrated innumerable case histories of application will prove to be a good reference book...It truly provides a launching pad' to enter the next century - Journal of the Geological Society

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