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12.510 Introduction to Seismology | Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

12.510 Introduction to Seismology | Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

This graduate level course presents a basic study in seismology and the utilization of seismic waves for the study of Earth's interior. It introduces techniques necessary for understanding of elastic wave propagation in layered media.
Keywords:
Geophysics, seismology, Geology, elastic wave propagation in stratified media, surface wave dispersion in layered media, earthquake locations, utilization of seismic waves, mode summation, interpretation of travel times, WKBJ, Solid Mechanics, Earth's free oscillations, synthetic seismograms, Earth's interior, seismicity, Ray theory
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Material Type:
Online Course
Date Added to MERLOT:
May 12, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:
May 12, 2016
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Barbra Bied Sperling
Hispanic Serving Institution
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Graduate School
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Language:
English
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States

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