Preface.
Acknowledgments.
1 Introduction.
2 Basic Seismological Theory.
3 Seismology and Earth Structure.
4 Earthquakes.
5 Seismology and Plate Tectonics.
6 Seismograms as Signals.
7 Inverse Problems.
Appendix: Mathematical and Computational Background.
Reference.
Solutions to selected odd-numbered problems.
Index.
Seth Stein is Professor of Geological Sciences at
Northwestern University. He has received the James B Macelwane
Medal of the American Geophysical Union, been elected a Fellow of
the American Geophysical Union and Geological Society of America,
and named to the Institute for Scientific Information Highly Cited
Researchers list. He served as Scientific Director of the
University Navstar Consortium and on the Incorporated Research
Institutions for Seismology's Executive Committee, and started
Northwestern's Environmental Science program.
Michael Wysession is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University. He is the recipient of the Packard Foundation and NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowships for his research into the structure of the Earth's deep interior.
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