- Docente: Stefano Tinti
- Credits: 6
- SSD: GEO/10
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Stefano Tinti (Modulo 1) Alberto Armigliato (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Physics of the Earth System (cod. 8626)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, students will possess technical and practical know-how on some of the main experimental methods of investigation used in Geophysics. Particularly, students will be able: - to interpret seismic traces and locate seismic events; - to plan, perform and interpret geo-electrical soundings.
Course contents
Fundamentals of georesistivity methods. Concept of apparent resistivity. Vertical and horizontal electric soundings. Experiments in the field: planning, acquisition and processing of data from electrical resistivity surveys. General review of the most common methods used in Experimental Geophysics to explore the inner of the Earth on a global and local scale. Sensors, instruments, stations and networks. Monitoring networks. Seismometers and accelerometers. Interpretation of seismograms (first arrivals and seismic phases). Hypocentral determination.
Readings/Bibliography
Overheads and lecture notes.
Dieter Vogelsang, Environmental Geophysics - A practical guide,Springer Verlag.
Enzo Boschi and Michele Dragoni, Sismologia, UTET.
H. Robert Burger, Exploration Geophysics of the Shallow Subsurface, Prentice Hall.
Teaching methods
Classroom lectures and experiments carried out in the laboratory and in the field
Assessment methods
The final test has the aim of ascertaining that the formation objectives are achieved and consists of an oral examination concerning theory as well as the numerical tests carried out in the laboratory.
Teaching tools
Overhead projector, laboratory
Office hours
See the website of Stefano Tinti
See the website of Alberto Armigliato