Module Name: Interpretation of Seismic Refraction Data

Staff involved: Mr D. Palmer, UNSW

Module Objectives: Development of intermediate to advanced skills in the interpretation of seismic refraction data, for geotechnical, groundwater, environmental, and statics applications.

Module program: Revision of fundamentals, the GRM, model based inversion, resolving ambiguities, amplitude effects, anisotropy, errors, acquisition parameters.

Format, duration and timing: Tutorial exercises with brief explanatory lectures. Distance education mode only in 2004. TBA

Assumed Knowledge: Elementary refraction, intercept time method, conventional reciprocal method

Text and/or reference material: Refraction Seismics, by Derecke Palmer, Geophysical Press, 1986.

Assessment: Class tutorials

Module contact person and coordinator:

D. Palmer
UNSW
Phone: (02) 9385 4275
Fax: (02) 9385 5935
E-mail: d.palmer@unsw.edu.au

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