The existence of anisotropy in the uppermost Earth’s crust requires
good understanding of reflection/transmission of seismic waves at
interfaces between different types of isotropic and/or anisotropic
media. Important is the knowledge of effects of anisotropy on the
reflection coefficients for the AVO studies.
In this thesis, we review in detail the theory of reflection of a plane
wave at a plane interface separating two homogeneous, generally
anisotropic halfspaces. A program based on this theory has been
developed and is used to study the effects of anisotropic material of
hexagonal symetry (caused by parallel aligned cracks) on the reflection
coeffcients.
We concentrate on two situations: reflection from the interface
separating an isotropic halfspace from the underlying anisotropic
halfspace of hexagonal symetry from the interface separating
anisotropic halfspace of hexagonal symetry from the underlying
isotropic halfspace.
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