Applied Geophysics

Proposed March Lecture Schedule

WMarch 1 Seismology:
  1. Migration
  2. Techniques for filtering Ground Roll
  3. Refraction Applications
  4. Reflection Applications
  5. Review of sources
MMarch 6 Electric:
  1. Introduction to Electrical Methods
  2. Sources of Natural Potentials
  3. Self Potential Method
  4. Introduction to Resistivity
  5. Archie's Law
  6. Resistivity of Water
WMarch 8 MIDTERM EXAM
MMarch 13 SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS
WMarch 15 SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS
MMarch 20 Electric:
  1. Resistivity of Rocks
  2. DC Resitivity
  3. Derivation of Resitivity Formula
  4. Resistivity Equation
  5. Current Distributions
  6. Formula for layer over half space
  7. Wenner, Schlumberger, and Diple Arrays
WMarch 22 Electric:
  1. Interpretation of apparent resistivity measurements
  2. Resistivity Pseudo-sections
  3. Field Procedures
  4. Induced Polarity measurements
  5. Magnetotelluics - Theory
MMarch 27 Electric:
  1. Field Project Discussions
  2. Magnetotelluics - Field Methods
  3. EM
  4. Applications to Ground Water: Case Histories
WMarch 29 Magnetic:
  1. Introduction to the technique
  2. Definition of Terms
  3. Earth's Main field
  4. Field from Dipole
  5. Earth's Main field - secular variations
  6. Magnetism in Rocks

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