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| JFZL7230 | Gravity Interpretation | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Third Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of GEOPHYSICAL ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Ali ELMAS | | Co-Lecturer | - | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | Evaluating the gravity anomalies originating from density differences and revealing the underground existing and desired target masses. Finding the boundaries and depths of economic formations by inversion. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | Design gravity geophysical surveys and adapt techniques to achieve specific exploration objectives. | 1,3 | 1 | | PO - 2 : | Write computer programs to model the geophysical responses measured in a variety of gravity techniques. | 1,3 | 1 | | PO - 3 : | Process and invert a variety of gravity geophysical measurements into their causative earth models. | 1,3 | 1 | | PO - 4 : | To be able to calculate the topography of underground interfaces with inverse solution technique. | 1,3 | 1 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Basic information about potential theory. Recall of gravite anomalies correction. Evaluation of gravity anomalies of various geometric shaped subsurface masses. Evaluation of two and three dimensional gravity anomalies of arbitrarily shaped objects, Detection of locations of underground formations by straightforward dissolution and inversion techniques. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction
| | | Week 2 | Fundamentals of gravity
| | | Week 3 | Elements of Potential Theory
| | | Week 4 | Observations
| | | Week 5 | Field activities
| | | Week 6 | Gravity anomalies and disturbances | | | Week 7 | Reductions and analyses
| | | Week 8 | Qualitative Interpretation
| | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 10 | Quantitative Interpretation
| | | Week 11 | Two dimensional approximations and modeling
| | | Week 12 | Three dimensional approximations and modeling | | | Week 13 | Strategies of model building, from trial and error to inversion
| | | Week 14 | Optimization and inversion
| | | Week 15 | Various applications
| | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 17/04/2018 | 2 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 17 | 13/06/2018 | 2 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 4 | 1 | 4 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Ödev | 1 | 4 | 4 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 7 | 1 | 7 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Total work load | | | 103 |
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