I regard it as my pleasant duty to express special gratitude to Peter Kennett who undertook the task of editing the book and has done a great amount of work improving the English text. The author is also grateful to the D. Reidel Publishing Company who realized the potential of the methods we have developed and overcame a lot of technical problems connected with the publication of our books.

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A complex array of vertical-seismic-profiles and reflection surveys in the Taman Peninsula, Krasnodar, using geophones with inclined axes, is used to investigate shear-wave splitting in thick Maikopian clays characterised by pronounced diapirism. The shear waves split into SH (faster) and SV (slower) components and display transverse isotropy with a vertical axis of symmetry with a maximum shear-wave delay of up to 0.5 s. Within the accuracy of the observations there is no azimuthal anisotropy.

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