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A.E. Mussett & M.A. Khan Looking into the Earth: An Introduction to Geological Geophysics.

Cambridge (Cambridge University Press), 2000, xxii + 470 pp. Price £26.95 (paperback); (£70.00 hardback). ISBN 0521 78085 3.

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The advent of any new introductory textbook in geophysics is a noteworthy event, particularly as few books have appeared that are pitched at a non-geophysical audience. Looking into the Earth: An Introduction to Geological Geophysics aims to fill that gap and aims squarely at an audience that may not necessarily want to become geophysicists but may want to know something about geophysics. The target audience thus encompasses geologists, civil engineers, environmental scientists and archaeologists. Not content with aiming at such a broad audience, Alan Mussett and Aftab Khan also cover the whole field of solid-earth geophysics from the structure of Earth’s interior to mapping the site of a Roman villa. They succeed admirably in achieving their ambitious targets, and the more I read through the book the more I liked the way the authors have structured it, and the way they weave together the application of physics to the Earth on a variety of scales.

The major strength of the book, which comes through again and again in both the overall structure of the book, and in the layout of the chapters in the various subsections, is the authors’ emphasis on the simple physical principles behind . . . [Full Text of this Article]