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A new approximate method to calculate the space‐time acoustic wave motion generated by an impulsive point source in a horizontally layered configuration is presented. The configuration consists of a stack of fluid layers between two acoustic half‐spaces where the source and the receiver are located in the upper half‐space. A distorted‐wave Born approximation is introduced; the important feature of the method is the assumption of a background medium with vertical varying root‐mean‐square acoustic wave speed. A closed‐form expression for the scattered field in space and time as a function of the contrast parameters is deduced. The result agrees closely with rigorously calculated synthetic seismograms. In the inverse scheme the wave speed and mass density can be reconstructed within a single trace. Results of the inversion scheme applied to synthetic data are shown.

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