Applied Geophysics

What Happened in February Lectures


MFebruary 2
  1. Instrumentation
  2. Interpretation and Examples
WFebruary 4
  1. More Examples
  2. Up and Down Continuation
  3. Demonstration of Xgrav software
FFebruary 6
  1. Gravity Quiz
  2. Intro to Seismic methods
MFebruary 9
  1. Seismic Methods: Stress and Strain
  2. Linear Elastic media
  3. Derivation of Wave equation
WFebruary 11
  1. Solutions to Wave equation
  2. Compressional and Shear Waves
  3. Interfaces and Snell's Law
  4. Reflection coefficients
  5. Seismic Impedence
  6. Surface Wave/Ground Roll
FFebruary 13
  1. Huygen's Principle
  2. Diffraction
  3. Introduction to Refraction Techniques
  4. X-T Curves
MFebruary 16
  1. No Class
WFebruary 18
  1. No Class
FFebruary 20
  1. No Class
MFebruary 23
  1. More on Refraction Techniques
  2. Multiple layers, dipping layers
  3. Low Velocity layers, blind zones
  4. Shooting across a fault
WFebruary 25
  1. True Dip vs Apparent Dip
  2. Introduction to Reflection Techniques
  3. Normal Moveout
  4. Stacking
  5. Gathers
  6. Seismic Homework Assigned
FFebruary 27
  1. Wavelengths and Frequency
  2. Fourier Transform - Time domain vs Frequency domain
  3. Sampling theorem and Nyquist frequency
  4. Linear Filters
  5. Convolution/Deconvolution
  6. Impulse response function


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