Anisotropic Seismology

Seismic anisotropy is ubiquitous at both the microscopic and macroscopic scales. The goal of this multidisciplinary book is to introduce students and more advanced scientists to seismic anisotropy at different scales, from the microscopic (0.1 nanometer) scale to the Earth (1000 kilometre) scale, and to improve the reader’s understanding of all active Earth processes. Drawing on both mineral physics and seismology, it presents the different geological, mineralogical, and geodynamical applications of seismic anisotropy, and argues that an understanding of seismic anisotropy is necessary to interpret all seismic, geophysical, petrological, and geological data This volume is an invaluable for graduate students and research scientists in seismology/geophysics, and will be of considerable interest to geophysicists working in petroleum exploration/production and to mineral physicists and researchers in geodynamics and fluid flow in rocks. With an overview of the main recent advances in research, it also provides the perfect starting point for further research.

Author Biography

Jean-Paul Montagner is Professor of Geophysics at the Institut de Physique du Globe, Université Paris-Diderot and has taught graduate-level courses in anisotropic seismology at Caltech (2001-2002) and IPG-Paris (2003–2005). He was awarded the Inge Lehmann Medal of the American Geophysical Union in 2021, and the Beno Gutenberg Medal of the European Geosciences Union in 2010, and he has published 160 peer-reviewed papers and ten books or book chapters. David Mainprice is a CNRS Director of Research in the Geosciences Department at the University of Montpellier. He is an expert in crystallography and anisotropic properties of minerals. He was the director of Electron microscopy facility at the CNRS at the University of Nantes. At the University of Montpellier, he was the director of UMR, director of Electron microscopy facility and member of the CNRS National Committee. He was awarded the Crosby distinguished lectureship in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT, Cambridge, USA. Recent distinctions include Elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2012) and the Paul G. Silver award of the Amercian Geophysical Union (2017). He is the author of over 150 publications in peer-reviewed international journals.