Seismic waves in a homogenous medium. Plane and spherical waves. Evanescent plane waves. Boundary conditions. Zeoppritz equations. Principles of Amplitude versus offset (AVO) analysis. AVO approximations. AVO classes. Seismic Anisotropy. Land seismic data processing. AVO analysis for detection of gas accumulations. Seismic Inversion for porosity mapping and hydrocarbon search. -- Course Website