Introduction to Applied Geophysics

Download or read book Introduction to Applied Geophysics written by Henry Robert Burger and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2006 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a chapter on each of the most common methods of exploration, the text explains in detail how each method is performed and discusses that method s geologic, engineering, and environmental applications. In addition to ample examples, illustrations, and applications throughout, each chapter concludes with a problem set. The text is also accompanied by the Field Geophysics Software Suite, an innovative CD-ROM that allows students to experiment with refraction and reflection seismology, gravity, magnetics, electrical resistivity, and ground-penetrating radar methods of exploration."