Courses Handbook 2010

306165 (v.3) Environmental Geophysics 618


Area: Department of Exploration Geophysics
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 2.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Fieldwork: 1 x 8 Hours Once-only
Syllabus: Soil porosity and electrical properties of soils, rocks and groundwater. Environmental magnetism and radiometrics. Management of agricultural land in saline environments: defining the problem in geophysical terms. Airborne radiometric surveys and soil/regolith mapping. Mapping salt storage with ground based and downhole EM and resistivity systems. Airborne electromagnetic methods for environmental investigations. DEM in salinity studies. Data integration in GIS and Data mining. Groundwater exploration. Mapping groundwater contamination. Environmental impact of geophysical surveys. Archaeology and geophysics.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 010705 Geophysics
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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