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TPG4120

Mineral, Engineering and Environmental Geophysics

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Credits 7.5
Level Third-year courses, level III
Course start Autumn 2024
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction English and norwegian
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement Oral exam

About

About the course

Course content

Seismic methods (refraction and reflection), electrical methods (profiling, vertical sounding and 2D (3D) measurements), electromagnetic methods (FEM, VLF, TEM), georadar, radiometry and well logging. The lectures are limited to the topics which are relevant to mineral, engineering and environmental explorations.

Learning outcome

Understanding of possibilities and limitations for different geophysical methods used in mineralogical, engineering geological, hydrogeological, geotechnical and environmental investigations.

Ingress: The students should know how geophysics is used to map the near surface geological conditions.

Knowledge: The students should understand the main principles behind geophysical measuring techniques and how these methods are exploited for improved understanding of the near surface geology in soils and rock.

Skills: The students should be capable of deriving basic geophysical equations. They should also be able to perform simple geophysical computations. Furthermore, it is expected that they should know how to do geological interpretations based on geophysical data.

General competence: The students should understand that basic physics laws may be exploited in a variety of disciplines. They shall have an overview over possibilities and limitations of the geophysical methods used in engineering, hydrogeological, geotechnical and environmental studies. The digital component in the course is moderate.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures, field measurements/field demonstrations, compulsory exercises (interpretations included reporting). The course will, if necessary, be held in English out of consideration to registered students. The course will be evaluated of a reference group appointed early in the semester.

Compulsory assignments

  • Exercises

Further on evaluation

All exercises must be approved before the exam, which requires a score of at least 70% on each exercise. The final exam counts 100%. The exam may be arranged over several days.

Course materials

John M. Reynolds: An Introduction to Applied and Environmental Geophysics, John Wiley & Sons (second edition), course notes, articles and reports.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
SIG4017 7.5 sp
This course has academic overlap with the course in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • Geophysics
  • Technological subjects

Contact information

Course coordinator

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Geoscience