By Juergen H. Schön
The translation of geophysical info in exploration geophysics, good logging, engineering, mining and environmental geophysics calls for wisdom of the actual homes of rocks and their correlations. actual homes are a "key" for mixed interpretation innovations. The examine of rock physics offers an interdisciplinary therapy of actual homes, no matter if on the topic of geophysical, geotechnical, hydrological or geological methodology.
Physical homes of Rocks, 2nd Edition, describes the actual basics of rock homes, according to general experimental effects and suitable theories and versions. It offers readers with all correct rock houses and their interrelationships in a single concise quantity. additionally, it publications the reader via experimental and theoretical wisdom in an effort to deal with versions and theories in practice.
Throughout the publication the writer makes a speciality of the issues of utilized geophysics with appreciate to exploration and the increasing box of purposes in engineering and mining geophysics, geotechnics, hydrology and environmental difficulties, and the houses below the stipulations of the higher Earth crust.
- Physical homes of Rocks, moment Edition,
courses readers via a scientific presentation of all proper actual homes and their interrelationships in parallel with experimental and theoretical easy wisdom and a advisor for dealing with middle versions and theories
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