Reviews

Acoustic and Elastic Wave Fields in Geophysics, III, A. A. Kaufman and A. L. Levshin, ISBN 0-444-51955-6, Elsevier, 2005, 652 pp., US$165. A Continental Plate Boundary: Tectonics of South Island, New Zealand, edited by D. Okaya, T. Stern, and F. Davey, ISBN 978-085790-440-5 American Geophysical Union, 2007, Geophysical Monograph 175, 369 pp., US$120, AGU members $84. Stratigraphic Reservoir Characterization for Petroleum Geologists, Geophysicists and Engineers, by Roger M. Slatt, ISBN 0-444-52817-2, Elsevier, 2006, 478 pp., w/CD, US$147.00. The Well Logging Handbook, by O. Serra, ISBN 978-2-7108-0912-8, Editions Technip, 2008, 609 pp., US$60, €45. Comprehensive Dictionary of Petroleum Science and Other Energy Sources, 4th Edition, English-French/French-English, M. Moureau and G. Brace, Editions Technip, Paris, ISBN 978-2-7108-0911-1. Seismic Data Analysis: Processing, Inversion, and Interpretation of Seismic Data, Öz Yilmaz, DVD, ISBN 978-1-56080-152-8, SEG, 2008, US$149 (nonmember); $99 (member). The Concise Geologic Time Scale, edited by James G. Ogg, Gabi Ogg, and Felix M. Gradstein, Cambridge, New York, ISBN 978-0-521-8949-2, 177 pp., US$40. Rock Quality, Seismic Velocity, Attenuation and Anisotropy, Nick Barton, ISBN 0415394414, CRC Press, 2006, 729 pp.