The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) publishes a comprehensive collection of print books and e-books authored by leading experts in applied geophysics. Our titles span foundational theory, proven industry practices, and emerging technologies—serving as trusted references for today’s geoscience challenges.
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SEG Print Books
3C Seismic and VSP: Converted waves and vector wavefield applications
Author: James E. Gaiser
List price: $270.00
Member price: $149.00
3D Seismic Survey Design, second edition
Author: Gijs J.O. Vermeer
List price: $216.00
Member price: $119.00
Anisotropy and Microseismics: Theory and Practice
Author: Vladimir Grechka
List price: $149.00
Member price: $82.00
Attenuation and Dispersion of Elastic Waves in Porous Rocks: Mechanisms and models
Authors: Boris Gurevich and José M. Carcione
List price: $161.00
Member price: $89.00
AVO
Authors: Satinder Chopra and John P. Castagna
List price: $216.00
Member price: $119.00
Basic Wave Analysis
Authors: Enders A. Robinson and Tijmen Jan Moser
List price: $125.00
Member price: $69.00
Blizzards and Broken Grousers
Author: Les R. Denham
List price: $53.00
Member price: $29.00
Classical and Modern Diffraction Theory
Editors: Kamill Klem-Musatov, Henning C. Hoeber, Tijmen Jan Moser, and Michael Pelisser
List price: $360.00
Member price: $199.00
Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Seismic Measurements: What Geophysicists and Engineers Need to Know
Author: Mark E. Willis
List price: $155.00
Member price: $85.00
Elements of 3D Seismology, third edition
Author: Christopher L. Liner
List price: $270.00
Member price: $149.00
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Applied Geophysics, 4th Ed
Author: Robert E. Sheriff
List price: $89.00
Member price: $49.00
Engineering Seismology with Applications to Geotechnical Engineering
Author: Öz Yilmaz
List price: $288.00
Member price: $159.00
Essentials of Seismic Attributes and Impedance Inversion
Authors: Satinder Chopra and Kurt J. Marfurt
List price: $344.00
Member price: $189.00
First Steps in Seismic Interpretation
Author: Donald A. Herron
List price: $89.00
Member price: $49.00
Forensic Data Processing
Author: Joe Dellinger
List price: $180.00
Member price: $99.00
Fundamentals of Gravity Exploration
Authors: Thomas R. LaFehr and Misac N. Nabighian
List price: $100.00
Member price: $44.00
Gravity and Magnetic Encyclopedic Dictionary
Author: Serguei Goussev
List price: $118.00
Member price: $65.00
Handbook of Poststack Seismic Attributes
Author: Arthur E. Barnes
List price: $216.00
Member price: $119.00
Illustrated Seismic Processing Volume 1: Imaging
Authors: Stephen J. Hill and Andreas Rüger
List price: $72.00
Member price: $39.00
Illustrated Seismic Processing Volume 2: Preimaging
Authors: Stephen J. Hill and Andreas Rüger
List price: $72.00
Member price: $39.00
Introduction to Petroleum Seismology, Second Edition
Authors: Luc T. Ikelle and Lasse Amundsen
List price: $344.00
Member price: $189.00
Land Seismic Case Studies for Near-Surface Modeling and Subsurface Imaging
Author: Öz Yilmaz
List price: $199.00
Member price: $109.00
Machine Learning for Science and Engineering Vol. I
Authors: Herman Jaramillo and Andreas Rüger
List price: $89.00
Member price: $49.00
Machine Learning Methods in Geoscience
Author: Gerard Schuster, with labs by Yuqing Chen, Yongxiang Shi, Shihang Feng, Zhaolun Liu, Zongcai Feng, Yunsong Huang, Yan Yang, and Tushar Gautam
List price: $270.00
Member price: $139.00
Methods and Applications in Reservoir Geophysics
Editor: David H. Johnston
List price: $143.00
Member price: $79.00
Microseismic Imaging of Hydraulic Fracturing: Improved Engineering of Unconventional Shale Reservoir
Author: Shawn Maxwell
List price: $82.00
Member price: $45.00
Microseismic Monitoring
Authors: Vladimir Grechka and Werner M. Heigl
List price: $149.00
Member price: $82.00
Numerical Modeling of Seismic Responses from Fractured Reservoirs by the Grid-characteristic Method
Authors: Vladimir Leviant, Igor Kvasov and Igor Petrov
List price: $149.00
Member price: $82.00
Remote Sensing in Action: The Curious Case of Sherlock Holmes and Albert Einstein
Authors: Enders A. Robinson and Dean Clark
List price: $143.00
Member price: $79.00
Seismic Data Analysis (2 Volumes)
Author: Öz Yilmaz
List price: $179.00
Member price: $99.00
Seismic Diffraction
Editors: Kamill Klem-Musatov, Henning C. Hoeber, Tijmen Jan Moser, and Michael Pelisser
List price: $433.00
Member price: $239.00
Seismic Inversion
Author: Gerard T. Schuster
List price: $252.00
Member price: $139.00
Seismic Methods for Urban Engineers
Authors: Yunyue Elita Li and Arthur Cheng
List price: $180.00
Member price: $99.00
Seismic Petrophysics in Quantitative Interpretation
Author: Lev Vernik
List price: $234.00
Member price: $129.00
Seismic Signatures and Analysis of Reflection Data in Anisotropic Media, third edition
Author: Ilya Tsvankin
List price: $143.00
Member price: $79.00
Seismology of Azimuthally Anisotropic Media and Seismic Fracture Characterization
Authors: Ilya Tsvankin and Vladimir Grechka
List price: $143.00
Member price: $79.00
Simultaneous Source Seismic Acquisition
Authors: Ray Abma and Mark S. Foster
List price: $149.00
Member price: $82.00
Storage of Carbon Dioxide in Saline Aquifers: Building confidence by forecasting and monitoring
Author: Philip Ringrose
List price: $130.00
Member price: $72.00
“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Thomsen!” Adventures of a Petroleum Scientist
Author: Leon Thomsen
List price: $89.00
Member price: $49.00
Survey Design and Seismic Acquisition for Land, Marine, and In-Between
Author: David J. Monk
List price: $180.00
Member price: $99.00
The Seismic Signal and Its Meaning
Author: André Luiz Romanelli Rosa
List price: $235.00
Member price: $129.00
Understanding Amplitudes: Basic seismic analysis for rock properties
Editor: Michael Burianyk
List price: $99.00
Member price: $54.00
Understanding Signals: Basic waveform analysis from a geophysical perspective
Author: Michael Burianyk
List price: $35.00
Member price: $19.00
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