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Environmental and Engineering Geoscience; February 2009; v. 15; no. 1; p. 50-52; DOI: 10.2113/gseegeosci.15.1.50
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Rock Quality, Seismic Velocity, Attenuation, and Anisotropy

Jeffrey R. Keaton1

1 MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Inc., 5628 East Slauson Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90040

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This encyclopedic monograph expresses nearly 40 years of Nick Barton's research interests in engineering classification of rock masses. Rock Quality, Seismic Velocity, Attenuation, and Anisotropy is organized into two basic parts: Chapters 1 through 9 in Part I pertain to civil engineering scales and applications, whereas Chapters 10 through 16 in Part II pertain to large-scale seismic phenomena and high-pressure laboratory rock physics tests. Part I constitutes 177 pages, compared to 380 pages in Part II. The last 55 pages of the text comprise Chapter 17, Conclusions. Conclusions are given for each chapter in numbered paragraphs. The smallest number of paragraphs (6) summarizes the conclusions for Chapter 3 (effects of anisotropy on Vp [the primary or compressional wave velocity]), whereas the largest number of paragraphs (51) is for Chapter 15 (shear wave splitting in fractured reservoirs and resulting from earthquakes). The nine chapters in Part I are summarized in 106 concluding paragraphs, whereas the seven chapters in Part II are summarized in 244 paragraphs.

Figures outnumber equations through Rock Quality, Seismic Velocity, Attenuation, and Anisotropy, and a random examination revealed at least two figures on just about any pair of facing pages. Appendix A is a thorough description of the six parameters that comprise the Q-system; Appendix B is a worked example of a Q-system calculation. References for all . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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