Classic Texts for Geophysicists

Geophysics Texts

General Geophysics

• Stacey, Franklin, Physics of the Earth,

  Seismology

• Aki and Richards, Quantitative Seismology, 1980.
• Chapman, C. Fundamentals of Seismic Wave Propagation, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• Kennett, B. L. N., The Seismic Wavefield, Cambridge University Press, 2001.

  Applied Geophysics

• Burger, H. R., Exploration Geophysics of the Shallow Subsurface, 1992.
• Hatton, L., et al, Seismic Data Processing,
• Kearey, P., M. Brooks, I. Hill, An Introduction to Geophysical Exploration, 2002.
• Sharma, P. V.,Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, 1997.
• Sheriff, Robert E., Geophysical Methods,
• Telford, et al., Applied Geophysics,
• Yilmaz, O., Seismic Data Processing, 2004.

  Electromagnetics

• Keller, G., and F. Frischknecht, Electrical Methods in Geophysical Prospecting, 1970.
• Wait, J. R., Geo-electomagnetism, 1982.

  Rock Physics

• Avseth, P., T. Mukerji, and G. Mavko, Quantitative Seismic Interpretation, 2005.
• Bourbie, T., O. Coussy, and B. Zinszner, Acoustics of Porous Media, 1987.
• Gueguen, Y., and V. Palciaukas, Introduction to the Physics of Rocks, 1994.
• Mavko, G., T. Mukerji, and J. Dvorkin, The Rock Physics Handbook: Tools for Seismic Analysis in Porous Media, 1998.
• Wang, Z. and A. Nur, Seismic and Acoustic Velocities in Reservoir Rocks, Volumes I and II, 1992.

  Potential Methods

• Blakely, Richard, Potential Theory in Gravity and Magnetic Applications, 1995.
• Kellogg, O. D., Foundations of Potential Theory, 1953.

Geoscience Texts

• Anderson, Donald, The Theory of the Earth,
• Davis, John, Statistics in Geology,
• Fetter, C. W. Jr., Applied Hydrogeology, Prentice Hall, 2001.
• Freeze, R. A., and J. A. Cherry, Groundwater, Prentice Hall, 1979.
• Johnson, Arvid, Physical Processes in Geology,
• Meissner, Rolf, The Continental Crust,
• Means, William, Stress and Strain,
• Press and Siever, Earth,
• Turcotte and Schubert, Geodynamics,

Geophysical Inverse Theory

• Berryman, J. G., Lecture Notes on Nonlinear Inversion and Tomography.
• Meju, M. A., Geophysical Data Analysis: Understanding Inverse Problem, Theory and Practice, 2001.
• Menke, W., Geophysical Data Analysis: Discrete Inverse Theory, 1989.
• Parker, R. L., Geophysical Inverse Theory, 1994.
• Scales, J., M. Smith, and S. Treitel, Geophysical Inverse Theory.
• Sen, M. and P. L. Stoffa, Golbal Optimization Methods in Geophysical Inversion, 1995.
• Snieder, R., and J. Trampert, Inverse Problems in Geophysics, 1999.
• Stewart, R. R., Exploration Seismic Tomography: Fundamentals, 1993.
• Tarantola, A., Inverse Problem Theory: Methods for Fitting and Model Parameter Estimation, 1987.

  Numerical Optimization

• Dennis, J. E., and R. B. Schnabel, Numerical Methods for Unconstrained Optimization and Nonlinear Problems, 1996.
• Luenberger, D. G., Optimization by Vector Space Methods, 1969.
• Nodecel, J., and S. J. Wright, Numerical Optimization, 1999.

Mathematics

• Churchill, Complex Analysis,
• Roach, G. F., Green's Functions, 1982.
• Rudin, W., Functional Analysis, 1991.
• Rudin, W., Real and Complex Analysis, 1987.

  Applied Mathematics

• Bracewell, R. N., The Fourier Transform and its Applications, 2000.
• Golub, G. H., and C. F. Van Loan, Matrix Computations, 1983.
• Lawson, C. L., and R. J. Hanson, Solving Least Squares Problems, 1974.
• Schey, H. M., Div, Grad, Curl and All That: An informal text on vector calculus, 1973.
• Strang, G., Linear Algebra and its Applications, 1980.
• Strang, G., Introduction to Applied Mathematics, 1986.

  Probability and Statistics

• Papoulis, A., and S. U. Pillai, Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes, 2002.
• Bevington, P. R., and d. K. Robinson, Data Reduction and Error Analysis, 2003.

Physics

General

• Halliday, D., and R. Resnick, Physics,

  Mathematical Physics

• Arfken, G. B., and H. J. Weber, Mathematical Methods for Physicists, 1995.
• Boas, M. L., Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences, 1983.
• Butkov, E., Mathematical Physics, 1968.
• Riley, K. F., M. P. Hobson, and S. J. Bence, Mathematical Methods for Physcis and Engineering, 1998.
• Snieder, R., A Guided Tour of Mathematical Methods for the Physical Sciences, 2004.

  Dynamics

• Marion, J. B., Classical Dynamics, 1970.

  Electromagnetic

• Cheng, D. K., Field and Wave Electromagnetics, Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1983.
• Chew, W. C., Waves and Fields in Inhomogeneous Media, IEEE Press, 1990.
• Jackson, J. D., Classical Electrodynamics, 1962.
• King, R. W. P., M. Owens, and T. T. Wu, Lateral Electromagnetic Waves, Springer-Verlag, 1992.
• Kraus, J. D., Electromagnetics, 1984.