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99887 - ESPLORAZIONE GEOFISICA

Academic Year 2022/2023

                
                        Docente:
                        Silvia Castellaro
                    
                        Credits:
                        8
                    
                        SSD:
                        GEO/10
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                            Geology and Territory (cod. 9073)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale
                        
                                    Course Timetable
                                
from Oct 10, 2022 to Jan 12, 2023

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student knows the principles at the basis of the most recent geophysical exploration techniques and of the numerical methods to model some physical behaviors of the subsoil. The student knows the fundamentals of 1) analog and digital signal processing in the time and frequency domain, 2) the seismic surface wave-based methods, 2) the methods based on the dynamic characterization of the subsoil, 3) the electrical and electromagnetic methods. The student is capable to apply these methos to stratigraphic exploration at different scales and to characterize the dynamic behavior of the subsoil. The student is capable to design multi-method surveys as a function of the different goals of the geophysical exploration.

Course contents

ELEMENTS OF SIGNAL THEORY

APPLIED SEISMOLOGY

GRAVITY METHODS

ELECTRICAL METHODS

ELECTROMAGNETIC METHODS

Field surveys to experiment all the studied methods

Readings/Bibliography

INTRODUCTION TO APPLIED GEOPHYSICS, Burger, Sheehan, Jones, Norton, 2006, 600 p. + CD

NEAR SURFACE APPLIED GEOPHYSICS, M.E. Everett, Cambridge, 2013, 400 p.

Altre letture:

AN INTRODUCTION TO GEOPHYSICAL EXPLORATION, Kearey, Brooks, Hill, Blackwell Publ., 2002, 262 p.

I METODI GEOELETTRICO E SISMICO PER LE INDAGINI SUPERFICIALI DEL SOTTOSUOLO, Carrara, Rapolla, Roberti, Liguori ed., 2012, 295 p.

ESPLORAZIONE GEOFISICA DEL SOTTOSUOLO, Musset, Aftab Khan, Zanichelli, 2003, 420 p.

Assessment methods

Written test (3 exercises) and oral test

Office hours

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