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Jun 01, 2024
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GEOL 4860 - Applied Seismology
Field methods and analysis techniques for seismic characterization of shallow subsurface, multichannel digital data acquisition, generalized reciprocal refraction, and common offset refraction techniques as practiced in environmental and geotechnical industries.
Requisites: GEOL 4850
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Become familiar with the primary seismic processing packages used in industry.
- Gain experience in planning and executing multi-array seismic refraction surveys.
- Gain experience planning and executing seismic reflection surveys.
- Gain experience planning and executing surface-wave seismic surveys.
- Know how to assemble a professional-level seismic project report including a statement of objectives, descriptions of sites and the methods employed, presentation of data, interpretation and conclusions and an estimated (fictional) cost of project.
- Know how to merge seismic refraction data from multiple arrays using phantoming techniques.
- Know the basic steps of analyzing common-depth-point reflection data, including filtering, static corrections, velocity analysis and stacking.
- Understand how to determine the optimum offset value for a common-offset reflection survey.
- Understand the data processing flow for analyzing refraction data using generalized reciprocal methods.
- Understand the data processing flow for analyzing surface-wave data using the Multichannel Analysis of Surface Wave technique (MASW).
- Understand the process by which a common-offset seismic image is produced.
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