- Docente: Silvia Castellaro
- Credits: 8
- SSD: GEO/10
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Geological Sciences (cod. 8015)
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from Feb 21, 2023 to May 18, 2023
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student knows the internal structure of the Earth from a physical (seismic, gravimetric, thermal, magnetic) point of view and the tectonophysical processes that shaped it. The student knows the main rheological models for the Earth interior, the main exploration methods that allowed to define the Earth structure and the still open questions. The student is capable to apply these concepts to the basic interpretation of data acquired by means of the methodologies described above.
Course contents
PRINCIPLES OF SEISMOLOGY and SEISMOLOGICAL EXPLORATION METHODS BASED ON BODY WAVES
PRINCIPLES OF GRAVIMETRY and GRAVIMETRIC EXPLORATION METHODS
EARTH MAGNETISM
EARTH HEAT FLOW
Readings/Bibliography
FUNDAMENTAL OF GEOPHYSICS, Lowrie W., Cambridge University Press (2020, 3rd edition)
THE SOLID EARTH: AN INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL GEOPHYSICS, C.M.R. Fowler, Cambridge University Press (2004, 2nd edition)
Assessment methods
Oral and written test (3 exercises).
A few compulsory exercises will be assigned during the course, to e delivered before the written test.
Office hours
See the website of Silvia Castellaro