Geophysics
223
Fall Semester: September - December 2006
Environmental Monitoring and Mining Exploration Techniques
Instructor: Assistant Professor Dr. Vadim A. Kravchinsky
Contacting
Me
Office: Room 348-C, Physics Department (CEB building)
Office Phone: 492-5591
e-mail: vkrav@phys.ualberta.ca
Personal web site: http://www-geo.phys.ualberta.ca/~vkrav/
I am most easily contacted in the afternoons, but feel free to come by other time too. My office hours are from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday and from 9:30 to 11:30 on Wednesday., if I am not in my office please send me an email message (preferred) or leave a voice mail message on my answering machine, a note on (under) my door, or and I will get back in touch with you as soon as I can.
Lab & Marking Assistant:
Lab: Soner Bekleric (email: sbekler@Phys.UAlberta.CA
)
Office: CEB-450 (
Phone: 492-5034
Marking: Gomez-Perez, Natalia (email: ngomez@Phys.UAlberta.CA )
Office: CEB-452 (
Phone: 492-7835
Suggested Text:
An Introduction to Applied and Environmental
Geophysics by John M. Reynolds. Publisher: John Wiley &
Sons, 2003.
An
Introduction to Geophysical Exploration by P. Kearey, M. Brooks & I. Hill, 3d Edition,
Blackwell Scientific Publications, 2002.
Environmental and Engineering Geophysics by
P. V. Sharma,
I may add to a file of additional resources as we go through the course.
I will put as much as possible at the website.
Course Weights
|
Assignments (approx. every two weeks) |
15% |
|
Labs (approx. every week) |
20% |
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Midterm Exam: Tuesday October 24 at 11 a.m. at the classroom |
25% |
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Final Exam: Friday TBA. |
40% |
The assignments will consist of both essay and mathematical derivations. You may have to go to the scientific literature or websites to do some of this work.
Assignments are due at 5:00 p.m. on date that they are requested. A drop box for the assignments may be found on the main floor just in front of main entrance to the Physics Department building. Given the large class size, extensions can only be allowed for medical reasons.
Assignments will be provided on the web in the Assignment Box.
Solutions will be provided on the web at the same address.
The students taking this class are primarily from Physics and EAS, I fully expect them to be web capable. If this is a problem please let me know. I will endeavor to put important figures at a point accessible to you via the web. If you aren't web capable - learn now!
OUTLINE
The links below are to the lecture notes used in class. These
have not been optimized for printing in any way and printing of the entire set
is not recommended. As well, the files are rather large which requires a lot of
download time on a regular modem off campus.
Computers crash at inappropriate times (such as the night before
a midterm or an exam). I cannot be responsible for crashes of the computers or
networks - you should make use of these notes well in advance of any assignment
due date or examination date.
- Gravity force,
potential fields
- Densities of rocks
- Acquisition and
correction of gravity data
- Analysis and
interpretation of gravity data
- Applications to
environment and engineering studies
A. Magnetic
units, magnetic potential and field
B. Magnetic properties of rocks and
soils
C. Acquisition and correction of
magnetic data
D. Analysis and interpretation of
magnetic data
E. Environment and engineering
applications
III. Seismic surveying
- Simple elastic
theory and seismic waves
- Reflection seismology
survey
- Refraction
seismology survey
- Seismic surveying
in environmental and exploration studies
IV. Resistivity and induced polarization surveys
- Current flow in the
ground
- Different electrode
array
- Interpretation of
resistivity data
- Applications of
resistivity surveys
V. Electromagnetic (EM) surveying
- Theory of
propagation of EM fields
- Continuous wave
field methods (frequency domain EM)
- Transient-field
methods (time-domain EM)
- Interpretation of
EM data