Applied Geophysics

Proposed March Lecture Schedule

MMarch 2 Seismology:
  1. Migration
  2. Techniques for filtering Ground Roll
  3. Refraction Applications
  4. Reflection Applications
  5. Review of sources
WMarch 4 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
FMarch 6 MIDTERM EXAM
MMarch 9 SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS
WMarch 11 SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS
FMarch 13 SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS
MMarch 16 Electric:
  1. Resistivity of Rocks
  2. DC Resitivity
  3. Derivation of Resitivity Formula
WMarch 18 Electric:
  1. Resistivity Equation
  2. Current Distributions
  3. Formula for layer over half space
  4. Wenner, Schlumberger, and Diple Arrays
FMarch 20 Electric:
  1. Interpreation of apparent resistivity measurements
  2. Resistivity Pseudo-sections
  3. Field Procedures
  4. Induced Polarity measurements
MMarch 23 Electric:
  1. Magnetotelluics - Theory
General:
  1. Field Project Discussions
WMarch 25 Electric:
  1. Magnetotelluics - Field Methods
  2. EM
General:
  1. More Field Project Discussions: See term project page
FMarch 27 Electric:
  1. Applications to Ground Water: Case Histories
Magnetic:
  1. Introduction to the technique
  2. Definition of Terms
  3. Earth's Main field
MMarch 29 Magnetic:
  1. Field from Dipole
  2. Earth's Main field - secular variations
  3. Magnetism in Rocks

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