From: Mining Magazine | Date: September 1, 1994 | COPYRIGHT 1994 Mining Journal Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

This book forms part of a planned series of 24 volumes which, when completed, will together comprise a Handbook of Geophysical Exploration.

In the book under review, Chapter 1 provides a short introduction in which the typical geological disturbances to which coal seams may be subjected are discussed in relation to mining methods.

Chapter 2 considers the physics of wave travel in coal seams: a coal seam embedded in country rock represents a channel of low seismic ve...