The book "Seismic Wave Propagation in Stratified Media" by Brian Kennett provides a comprehensive treatment of seismic wave propagation in layered media. It covers the fundamental aspects of seismic waves, including their generation, propagation, and detection, with a focus on realistic Earth models. The book emphasizes the reflection and transmission properties of stratified media and their interrelation with various methods for calculating theoretical seismograms. Key topics include: 1. **Introduction**: Discusses the nature of seismic signals, seismogram analysis, and the role of seismic waves in understanding Earth's structure and sources. 2. **Coupled Equations for Seismic Waves**: Introduces depth-dependent properties, fundamental and propagator matrices, and stress-displacement fields. 3. **Stress-Displacement Fields**: Explores uniform and smoothly varying media, uniform approximations, and transverse isotropy. 4. **Seismic Sources**: Covers equivalent forces, moment tensor densities, source representation, and radiation patterns. 5. **Reflection and Transmission**: Analyzes reflection and transmission at interfaces, composite regions, and time dependence. 6. **The Response of a Stratified Half Space**: Discusses equivalent surface source representation, depth-dependent sources, and recovery of responses. 7. **The Seismic Wavefield**: Focuses on controlled-source seismology, reflection and refraction studies, and long-range propagation. 8. **Approximations to the Response of the Stratification**: Examines surface reflections, split stratification, and approximate integration techniques. 9. **Generalized Ray Theory**: Describes generalized ray expansions, ray selection, and slowness results. 10. **Modal Summation**: Covers dispersion curves, theoretical seismograms, and separation of body wave phases. The book is a revised edition of an essay that won the Adams’ Prize at the University of Cambridge in 1979-1980. It is suitable for graduate students and researchers in seismology, providing a unified account of seismic wave propagation in stratified media.The book "Seismic Wave Propagation in Stratified Media" by Brian Kennett provides a comprehensive treatment of seismic wave propagation in layered media. It covers the fundamental aspects of seismic waves, including their generation, propagation, and detection, with a focus on realistic Earth models. The book emphasizes the reflection and transmission properties of stratified media and their interrelation with various methods for calculating theoretical seismograms. Key topics include: 1. **Introduction**: Discusses the nature of seismic signals, seismogram analysis, and the role of seismic waves in understanding Earth's structure and sources. 2. **Coupled Equations for Seismic Waves**: Introduces depth-dependent properties, fundamental and propagator matrices, and stress-displacement fields. 3. **Stress-Displacement Fields**: Explores uniform and smoothly varying media, uniform approximations, and transverse isotropy. 4. **Seismic Sources**: Covers equivalent forces, moment tensor densities, source representation, and radiation patterns. 5. **Reflection and Transmission**: Analyzes reflection and transmission at interfaces, composite regions, and time dependence. 6. **The Response of a Stratified Half Space**: Discusses equivalent surface source representation, depth-dependent sources, and recovery of responses. 7. **The Seismic Wavefield**: Focuses on controlled-source seismology, reflection and refraction studies, and long-range propagation. 8. **Approximations to the Response of the Stratification**: Examines surface reflections, split stratification, and approximate integration techniques. 9. **Generalized Ray Theory**: Describes generalized ray expansions, ray selection, and slowness results. 10. **Modal Summation**: Covers dispersion curves, theoretical seismograms, and separation of body wave phases. The book is a revised edition of an essay that won the Adams’ Prize at the University of Cambridge in 1979-1980. It is suitable for graduate students and researchers in seismology, providing a unified account of seismic wave propagation in stratified media.