- 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 perform shallow surface geophysical prospecting with seismic refraction techniques as well as seismic reflection techniques.
Course contents
Reflection and transmission coefficients for seismic waves across an interface. Dromocrones for refracted and reflected waves in models with plane parallel interfaces. Dromocrone of a refracted wave on a dipping plane. Direct and conjugate path. Planning a seismic refraction survey. GRM method. Reflected waves in a multilayer medium with parallel interfaces. Reflection hyperbolas. Normal-Move-Out (NMO) correction. Acquisition configurations. Seismic section.
Readings/Bibliography
Overheads and lecture notes.
H. Robert Burger, Exploration Geophysics of the Shallow Subsurface, Prentice Hall.
John M. Reynolds, An introduction to Applied and Environmental Geophysics, John Wiley & Sons.
Alan E.Mussett and M.Aftab Kahn, Esplorazione del sottosuolo, Zanichelli.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 experimental tests carried out in the laboratory and in the field
Teaching tools
Overhead projector, laboratory
Office hours
See the website of Stefano Tinti
See the website of Alberto Armigliato