Abstract
Seismic prospecting has its basis in the classical physical principles of transmission, reflection, refraction, and scattering of elastic waves in a layered solid half-space. The great increase in application of the methods and the continual effort to improve them since 1925 have resulted in elaboration and refinement of instruments, field methods, and interpretation techniques. It is the most expensive method of geophysical prospecting, but also the most powerful. In many areas it can map beds many thousands of feet deep and detect depth variations of the order of a few feet.
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Ewing, M., Press, F. (1956). Seismic Prospecting. In: Bartels, J. (eds) Geophysik I / Geophysics I. Handbuch der Physik / Encyclopedia of Physics, vol 10 / 47. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45855-2_6
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