This fully updated text addresses the relationships between geophysical observations and the underlying physical properties of rocks. It distills a vast quantity of background theory and laboratory results into a series of concise chapters that provide practical solutions to problems in geophysical data interpretation. Now in its second edition, major new chapters are presented on statistical rock physics and velocity-porosity-clay models for clastic sediments. Other new and expanded topics include anisotropic seismic signatures, borehole waves, models for fractured media, poroelastic models, and attenuation models. Also new to this edition is an enhanced set of appendices with key empirical results, data tables, and an atlas of reservoir rock properties - extended to include carbonates, clays, gas hydrates, and heavy oils. Supported by a website hosting MATLAB routines for implementing the various rock physics formulas, this book is a vital resource for advanced students and university faculty, as well as petroleum industry geophysicists and engineers.
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"The concise structure of the articles, confined to mathematical equations with clearly presented assumptions and limitations, makes the content a handy tool for the solution of earl problems encountered in geological and geophysical research. ... Geophysical researchers and students, as well as petroleum engineers and environmental geoscientists will value the book for its practical problem solving." - Pure and Applied Geophysics
"...concisely written, comprehensive and extremely well presented and thus comes highly recommended." - The Leading Edge
Praise for the 1st Edition: 'The Rock Physics Handbook ... has stood on my shelf for many years as a succinct, readable volume both for reference and numerical recipes in rock physics and seismic wave propagation.' Surveys in Geophysics
Praise for the 1st Edition: '... covers a wide range of topics and brings together most of the theoretical and laboratory work of rock physics which is necessary for the interpretation of seismic data ... an excellent reference text.' Geological Magazine
Praise for the 1st Edition: '... an invaluable single volume reference of material otherwise widely scattered in the literature.' Mineral Planning
"...concisely written, comprehensive and extremely well presented and thus comes highly recommended." - The Leading Edge
Praise for the 1st Edition: 'The Rock Physics Handbook ... has stood on my shelf for many years as a succinct, readable volume both for reference and numerical recipes in rock physics and seismic wave propagation.' Surveys in Geophysics
Praise for the 1st Edition: '... covers a wide range of topics and brings together most of the theoretical and laboratory work of rock physics which is necessary for the interpretation of seismic data ... an excellent reference text.' Geological Magazine
Praise for the 1st Edition: '... an invaluable single volume reference of material otherwise widely scattered in the literature.' Mineral Planning
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This volume, a combination of undergraduate text and lab book, provides students with a step-by-step guide to solving geometric problems in structural geology. Updated to incorporate new material on stress, deformation, strain and flow, it emphasizes the underlying mathematics and provides numerous homework exercises for which solutions are available online.
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This review is from: The Rock Physics Handbook: Tools for Seismic Analysis of Porous Media (Stanford-Cambridge Program) (Hardcover)
Excellent reference. Improvements would be more explanation of the variables in the equations. The index at the back is off, for example a reference on page 60 (Greenberg et al)is actually on page 64 and another topic that is supposed to be on page 235 is actually on page 246 (Smith and Gidlow).
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This review is from: The Rock Physics Handbook: Tools for Seismic Analysis of Porous Media (Stanford-Cambridge Program) (Hardcover)
The book works well as a reference, but contains only cursory examinations of some topics. Governing and consistutive equtions are comprehensively included in the text. Worth the expense.
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