Exploration geophysics and field survey
- General concepts: Geophysical methods, Types of geophysical measurement, The nature of geophysical responses, Signal and noise, Data analysis, Discrete Fourier transform, Filtering, Convolution and de convolution, Sampling and aliasing, Data windows and spectral analysis, Geophysical methods in exploration, The cost of geophysical methods. Survey design, Feature detection, Reduction of data, Interpolation and gridding of data, Types of data presentation
- Magnetic method: Overview, Role of the magnetic method, The Earth’s magnetic field, Implementing the magnetic method, Magnetic potential theory, Magnetic potential of a point dipole, Magnetic effects of a body,
Total magnetic moment, Magnetization of Earth materials , Mineral magnetism , Magnetic susceptibility , Magnetization of rocks, Magnetic property measurements, Magnetic data acquisition , Instrumentation, Survey design and procedures ,Magnetic data processing, Magnetic data filtering, M
- Gravity method: introduction, physical principles of gravity field, gravity field of the earth, gravity potential, variations of gravity field according to latitude, measurement of gravity acceleration, types of gravimeters, gravity measurements, corrections of gravity data, noise factors, Bouguer anomaly, density of rocks and minerals and their measurement, density estimation using gravity data, separation of regional and local anomalies, interpretation of gravity anomalies
- Seismic methods
- Electrical and electromagnetic
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