Geophysics 20: Earthquakes

Course References

  


REFERENCES GEOPHYSICS 20, FALL '97 (updated 07/15/96)


Instructor: Professor Barbara Romanowicz Director of Seismological Laboratory Office Hours: Thursday 2-4 pm , upon appointment only 475 Mc Cone Hall

Text: Bolt, B. A., Earthquakes and Geological Discovery, Scientific Amer. Library, N.Y., 1993. General References: Bath, M., Introduction to Seismology, Wiley, N.Y., 395 pp., 1973. Bolt, B. A., Earthquakes, (revised ed.), W. H. Freeman, N. Y., 331 pp., 1993. *Bolt, B. A., Inside the Earth, W.H. Freeman, San Francisco, 191 pp., 1982. Bullen, K.E. and B.A. Bolt, An Introduction to the Theory of Seismology, 4th ed., Cambridge U. Press, 499 pp. , 1985. *Fowler, C. M. R., The Solid Earth, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 472 pp., 1990. *Gere, J. M. and H.C. Shah, Terra Non Firma, W.H. Freeman, N.Y., 203 pp, 1984. Gubbins, D. Seismology and Plate Tectonics, Cambridge U. Press, 339 pp., 1990. Iacopi, R. Earthquake Country, Lane Book Co, Menlo Park, 192 pp., 1971. Lomnitz, C. , Global Tectonics and Earthquake Risk, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 320 pp., 1974. Oakshott, G. B., California's Changing landscape, MC Graw Hill, N.Y., 386 pp. *Press, F. and R. Siever, Earth, 4th ed., W.H. Freeman, N.Y., 1986. *Richter, C.F. Elementary Seismology, Freeman, San F.rancisco, 768 pp., 1958. *Yanev, P., Peace of Mind in earthquake Country, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 304 pp., 1974. Asterisks indicate texts from which exerpts will be explicitely used in the lectures.

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