Details of ES4103 (Autumn 2012)
| Level: 4 | Type: Laboratory | Credits: 3.0 |
| Course Code | Course Name | Instructor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| ES4103 | Geophysics Laboratory | S.N. Bhattacharya, Supriyo Mitra |
| Syllabus |
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| Geophysics Laboratory
Scope This course introduces students to geophysical field equipments and exemplifies how a geophysical problem is posed, experiments designed, data acquired and processed to obtain information about the deep Earth. Course Content Introduction to field Geophysical Equipments; Review of Programming and Applications to Geophysical problems; Observational Seismology Problems: Location of A teleseismic earthquake. (graphically), Fault plane solution of an earthquake from teleseismic records. (graphically) Surface wave dispersion (graphically). Computational Geophysics problems : Spherical Earth distance, azimuth and backazimuth calculations (computer), Computing the focal/auxiliary plane geometry (compute)r. Seismic wave propagation (graphical) problems: Seismic wave propagation in a layer over a halfspace with a horizontal interface, Seismic wave propagation in a layer over a halfspace with a dipping interface. Geophysical Inverse Problems :Earthquake epicentral location from travel time data (computer); Fissure Problem in AFAR (GPS measured displacement data) (computer); Travel Time tomography problem (computer). (Handouts will be provided to students) |
| References |
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| Text Books:
1 Introduction to Seismology, Peter Shearer, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999. 2 Inverse Problem Theory and Model Parameter Estimation, Albert Tarantola, SIAM, 2005. 3 The Solid Earth: An Introduction to Global Geophysics: 2nd Ed, CMR Fowler, Cambridge University Press, 2005. |
Course Credit Options
| Sl. No. | Programme | Semester No | Course Choice |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | IP | 1 | Not Allowed |
| 2 | IP | 3 | Not Allowed |
| 3 | MS | 7 | Core |
| 4 | RS | 1 | Not Allowed |