Looking into the Earth: An Introduction to Geological Geophysics

Hey dude I wanna thank you for this one. I paid less for a new edition, with a slightly bent cover from shipping, than for a copy if I had of rented one from my local university bookstore. This is a book I will use for the rest of my career since I'm going into petroleum geology and seismic is a HUGE part of that. Thanks man I owe ya oneAndy

This was a textbook.Very good, I liked the page set ups and the clear pages, nice for highlighting!

The book is very easy to follow as someone with no geology background! it introduces concepts for the first half of the book and applications in the second half. This was a required text for my module but it really helps in my understanding of the material. No problems so far!! Plus it came really fast with Prime delivery!

Ordered a book got a book. It was book shaped and had pages with text. 10/10 would book again.

Wasn't too enthused with this book. The authors/writers wrote too many filler words describing things. Instead of keeping it real, they make it so wordy that you have to re-read things 3X to understand what they are trying to say. As a geologist, I was disappointed reading this and I've read thousands of geology books.The book itself is not laid out like a normal textbook should be. It's all over the place with the chapters, nothing is in order, multiple run on sentences and poor grammar, and many of the diagrams you're reading about are not even in the same chapters (some of them being in completely different chapters that refer you to another chapter). I would not recommend this book for these very reasons. Books like this are why students do not want to learn science. I highly recommend the authors organize this book in their next update and eliminate all the unnecessary wordy descriptions. If you're going to describe what something is, keep it real, tell exactly what it is. It's science and should be accurate and to the point.One of the things I did like about the book are the multiple diagrams around the book, but they need to be structured better to show the viewer what they are reading about. I don't like being on page 10 and a book is referring me to look at the matching diagram on page 225. Makes no sense to force readers to move all around the book like this. Keep things together.

Easily understandable for a complex subject

prior to reading this book, i had already taken a more difficult , engineering-oriented Digital Signal Processing class (groundwork for Geophysics) so I had a good background it in.this book attempts to dummy down DSP concepts for the laymen (or layscientists) but fails in doing so. half of the ideas are well articulated, but the other-half are written poorly (confusingly or expounded insufficiently) or are illustrated poorly.i imagined that if i had no background in dsp or engineering--the target of this book--i would have found it very frustrating.since this is a textbook, most of the readers will have no choice in book selection, anyways, so tough luck :)

great book.