AN elementary textbook is much concerned with the fundamentals of a subject and these do not change with time. In this respect the second edition of our book •has been little modified. In every other it is much altered for the subject has advanced greatly since we gathered together the material for the original version. The changes have…
The idea for this book originated in 1987 while I was preparing for lectures on courses in applied geology and environmental geo• physics at Plymouth Polytechnic (now the University of Plymouth), Devon, England. Students who had only very basic mathematical skills and little if any physics background found most of the so• called 'int…
The seismic-reflection method, a powerful geophysical exploration technique that has been in widespread use in the petroleum industry for more than 60 years, has been used increasingly since 1980 in applications shallower than 30 m. The seismic-reflection method measures different parameters than other geophysical methods, and …
In conventional utilization of the seismic reflection method, it has traditionally been assumed that seismic signals can be viewed as a band-limited normal incidence reflection coefficient series with appropriate traveltime and amplitude variation due to propagation through an overburden. Ostrander …