GEOPHYSICS

Academic Year 2018/2019 - 2° Year
Teaching Staff: Stefano Gresta and Giovanni Distefano
Credit Value: 9
Scientific field: GEO/10 -
Taught classes: 42 hours
Laboratories: 36 hours
Term / Semester:
ENGLISH VERSION

Detailed Course Content

SEISMOLOGY

Seismic waves. Snell’s law. Huygens law.

Elastic parameters: Young and rigidity moduli; Poisson coefficient. Velocity of seismic waves.

Domocrones. Structure of the Earth’s inner.

Simplified epicentral locations.

Fourier Transform.

The general equation of seismometry

The electromagnetic seismometer.

Magnitude.

Gutenberg-Richter’s law.

GRAVIMETRY

Earth gravimetric field.

Absolute and relative gravimetric measurements.

Linear and astatic gravimeters;

Corrections to gravity measurements.

Gravimetric anomalies.

 

GEOMAGNETISM

Intensity of the magnetic field; magnetic potential; magnetic moment.

Field of a magnetic dipole. Variation of the magnetic field, isoclines e isogones.

Paleomagnetism.

Origine of the geomagnetic field terrestre.

The magnetic isteresis.


Textbook Information

Gasparini e Mantovani - Liguori Editore