Mineral, Engineering and Environmental Geophysics

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.

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.

Lectures, field measurements/field demonstrations, compulsory exercises (interpretations included reporting). The course will be evaluated of a reference group appointed early in the semester.