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AS the author remarks, "the forces producing earthquakes, the character and structure of the rocks affected, and the permanent displacements occurring in them are geological phenomena". They form the subject of seismology proper, and have been well described in Heck's recent work on "Earthquakes"(see NATTJBE, March 27, 1937, p. 529). The subsequent course of the waves so produced and the physical properties of the media through which they pass form a distinct branch of science to which the present volume is devoted. Depending to some extent on older works, such as Galitzin's "Vorlesungen iiber Seismometrie", this book is a summary of lectures delivered by the author. With its companion volume on "Seismometry", by F. W. Sohon, it forms a text-book that will be of great value to students of geophysics.
Introduction to Theoretical Seismology
J. B. Macelwane F. W. Sohon. Part 1: Geodynamics. By J. B. Macelwane. Pp. x + 366. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1936.) 30s. net.
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D., C. Introduction to Theoretical Seismology. Nature 141, 628 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141628b0
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