USU Geology 5660/6660 Course Materials, Spring 2008

Course Syllabus


Class Meets MWF 9:30-10:20 in Geology 102; Labs meet Tuesdays at 1:30 (also in 102)

PowerPoint Lectures & Other Schedule Info:

  • 07 January: Overview of Geophysics & Geophysical Imaging

  • 08 January: Lab 1 Thought Exercise

  • 09 January: Introduction to the Wave Equation

  • 11 January: Introduction to the Wave Equation; Seismic Velocity

  • 14 January: Instrumentation: The Seismometer

  • 15 January: Lab 2: Intro to Refract & Reflect

  • 16 January: Fundamentals of Wave Theory

  • 18 January: Seismic Reflection Concepts (& prep for Schroeder lab on Tuesday)

  • 23 January: Seismic Amplitudes (Spreading & Attenuation)

  • 25 January: Seismic Amplitudes: Zoeppritz Equations

  • 28 January: The Seismic Refraction Method

  • 29 January: Lab 3: Amplitude Relations

  • 30 January: Seismic Refraction: Dipping Layers

  • 01 February: Seismic Refraction Cont'd: Multiple Dipping Layers

  • 04 February: Seismic Refraction Cont'd: More Complex Velocity & Thickness Variations

  • 05 February: Lab 4: Seismic Refraction

  • 06 February: The Seismic Reflection Method

  • 08 February: Seismic Reflection: x2 - t2 and Dix Equation

  • 11 February: Seismic Reflection: More on NMO (Dipping Layer)

  • 12 February: Lab 5: Seismic Reflection

  • 13 February: Seismic Reflection: Some practical considerations

  • 15 February: Seismic Reflection: Data Processing

  • 19 February: Seismic Reflection: Data Processing II

  • 20 February: Review Lab 3; Seismic Interpretation

  • 22 February: Review Lab 4

  • 25 February: Ground Penetrating Radar

  • 26 February: Lab 6: GPR on the SECF

  • 29 February: GPR

  • 03 March: Global Positioning System

  • 04 March: Global Positioning System

  • 05 March: Intro Gravity: Laplace Eqn, Measurement

  • 17 March: Gravity, Gravity Reductions

  • 18 March: Gravity Reductions, Lab 7: Gravity Modeling
    (gravity.dat)

  • 19 March: Gravity Modeling

  • 21 March: Magnetism

  • 24 March: Earth's Magnetic Field

  • 26 March: Magnetometers and Data Reduction

  • 28 March: Modeling Magnetic Anomalies

  • 31 March: Modeling Magnetic Bodies; DC Resistivity

  • 02 April: DC Resistivity

  • 04 April: DC Resistivity (Arrays and Modeling)

  • 07 April: DC Resistivity Modeling

  • 09 April: DC Resistivity and IP

  • 11 April: Spontaneous Potential (IP)

  • 14 April: Magnetotelluric (MT)

  • 15 April: Lab 8 Assignment
    (Seismic.xls)
    (Resistivity.xls)
    (Magnetic.xls)

  • 16 April: Wireline Logging

  • 18 April: Wireline Logging; Lab 6

  • 21 April: Wireline Logging; Lab 7