2018/2019

2019/2020

DM270

GEO/11 (APPLIED GEOPHYSICS)

DEPARTMENT OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

APPLIED GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

2nd semester (02/03/2020 - 19/06/2020)

6

48 lesson hours

English

WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST

TORRESE PATRIZIO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

No MSc preparatory classes

Concepts and tools necessary for the setting up of a site investigation survey, prospecting design, the achievement of the survey during data collection, processing and interpretation, the understanding of the factors affecting the choice of the prospecting method.

Lectures
Objectives and criteria for the setting up of a site investigation survey, prospecting design, factors affecting the choice of the prospecting method, applicability and limitations of the different surveys, national regulations. Drilling equipment and methods, cable tool drilling, rotary drilling, hole hammer drilling, auger drilling, coring and sampling techniques, sampling quality categories, standard procedures for the description of soils and rocks. Penetrometer tests, CPT, CPTU, DCPT, SPT. Seismic methods: reflection, refraction, tomography, SASW, MASW, REMI, Down Hole, VSP, Cross Hole, HVSR surveys. Resistivity methods: resistivity depth sounding, resistivity profiling, ERT, self-potential, induced polarization, mise à la masses. Electromagnetics methods: GPR CWEM, TEM, VLF-EM, MT, CSAMT. Gravity method, magnetic method. Geophysical logging: sonic, resistivity, self potential, induction, radioactive logs.
Practicals
Geophysical prospecting design. Seismic, resistivity, self potential, induced polarization, electromagnetic, gravity data processing and interpretation. Electrical resistivity dataset collection, processing and interpretation.
Fieldwork
Carrying out of resistivity, self potential, induced polarization, electromagnetic survey.

The course consists of lectures, software practicals carried out at the computing center, software demonstrations carried out in the classroom, written exercises and field activities. The geophysical models processed in presence during the software practicals at the computing center and perfected independently will be presented to the final examination in the form of graphic drawings

Benson R.C. &Yuhr L, 1996, An introduction to geophysical techniques and their applications for engineers and project managers, SAGEEP 96 Short Course, Technos, Inc
Milsom J., 2003. Field geophysics, Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Parasnis D.S., Principles of applied geophysics, Chapman Hall
Meyer De Stadelhofen C., Applications de la géophysique aux recherches d’eau, Lavoisier
Mari J.L., Arens G, Chapellier D., Gaudiani P., 1999, Geophysics of reservoir and civil engineering. Editions Technip
Dobrin M.B., Savit C.H., Introduction to Geophysical Prospecting, McGraw-hill International Edition
Griffiths D.H. & King R.F., Applied geophysics for geologists and engineers, Pergamon
Telford W.M., Geldart L.P., Sheriff R.E., Applied Geophysics, Cambridge University Press
Lowrie W., 2007, Fundamentals of Geophysics, Cambridge University Press
Chiesa G., Pozzi per acqua, Hoepli

Written and oral examination

The teaching materials used during the course is available on the digital teaching platform Kiro