Geophysics category: 630 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The Dead Sea transform is an active plate boundary connecting the Red Sea seafloor spreading system to the Arabian-Eurasian continental collision zone. Its geology and geophysics provide a natural laboratory for investigation of the surficial, crustal and mantle processes occurring along transtensional...
by Michael S. Zhdanov
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
*Foundations of Geophysical Electromagnetic Theory and Methods, Second Edition,*builds on the strength of the first edition to offer a systematic exposition of geophysical electromagnetic theory and methods. This new edition highlights progress made over the last decade, with a special focus on recent...
by Frank D. Stacey, Paul M. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
The fourth edition of Physics of the Earth maintains the original philosophy of this classic graduate textbook on fundamental solid earth geophysics, while being completely revised, updated, and restructured into a more modular format to make individual topics even more accessible. Building on the...
Inverse Methods
Interdisciplinary Elements of Methodology, Computation, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Over the last few decades inversion concepts have become an integral part of experimental data interpretation in several branches of science. In numerous cases similar inversion-like techniques were developed independently in separate disciplines, sometimes based on different lines of reasoning, but...
by Haruo Sato, Michael C. Fehler, Takuto Maeda
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2012
Seismic waves - generated both by natural earthquakes and by man-made sources - have produced an enormous amount of information about the Earth's interior. In classical seismology, the Earth is modeled as a sequence of uniform horizontal layers (or spherical shells) having different elastic properties...
by Zhenpeng Su
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
This thesis focuses on the construction and application of an electron radiation belt kinetic model including various adiabatic and non-adiabatic processes. The terrestrial radiation belt was discovered over 50 years ago and has received a resurgence of interest in recent years. The main drivers of...
Nonlinear Mathematical Physics and Natural Hazards
Selected Papers from the International School and Workshop held in Sofia, Bulgaria, 28 November – 02 December, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
This book is devoted to current advances in the field of nonlinear mathematical physics and modeling of critical phenomena that can lead to catastrophic events. Pursuing a multidisciplinary approach, it gathers the work of scientists who are developing mathematical and computational methods for the...
Subsurface Fluid Flow and Imaging
With Applications for Hydrology, Reservoir Engineering, and Geophysics
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
This book introduces methodologies for subsurface imaging based upon asymptotic and trajectory-based methods for modeling fluid flow, transport and deformation. It describes trajectory-based imaging from its mathematical formulation, through the construction and solution of the imaging equations,...
by Hongqi Liu
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
This book primarily focuses on the principles and applications of electric logging, sonic logging, nuclear logging, production logging and NMR logging, especially LWD tools, Sondex production logging tools and other advanced image logging techniques, such as ECLIPS 5700, EXCELL 2000 etc. that have...
by Hua-Wei Zhou
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
This modern introduction to seismic data processing in both exploration and global geophysics demonstrates practical applications through real data and tutorial examples. The underlying physics and mathematics of the various seismic analysis methods are presented, giving students an appreciation of...
Seismic Data Interpretation and Evaluation for Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production
A Practitioner’s Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This book introduces readers to the field of seismic data interpretation and evaluation, covering themes such as petroleum exploration and high resolution seismic data. It helps geoscientists and engineers who are practitioners in this area to both understand and to avoid the potential pitfalls of...
The Earth's Heterogeneous Mantle
A Geophysical, Geodynamical, and Geochemical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
This book highlights and discusses recent developments that have contributed to an improved understanding of observed mantle heterogeneities and their relation to the thermo-chemical state of Earth's mantle, which ultimately holds the key to unlocking the secrets of the evolution of our planet. This...
Global Gravity Field and Its Temporal Variations
Symposium No. 116 Boulder, CO, USA, July 12, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In July 1995 the XXI General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics was held in Boulder, Colorado. At this meeting the International Association of Geodesy (lAG) organized a number of symposia to discuss scientific developments and future directions in a number of areas. One...
Seismic Amplitude
An Interpreter's Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Seismic amplitudes yield key information on lithology and fluid fill, enabling interpretation of reservoir quality and likelihood of hydrocarbon presence. The modern seismic interpreter must be able to deploy a range of sophisticated geophysical techniques, such as seismic inversion, AVO (amplitude...