Faculty of Science

Objectives

To understand how changes of fields at the earth’s surface are used to conjecture the nature of subsurface changes in density and susceptibility. These are then used to deduce the structure and composition of the subsurface.

Contents

Potential theory, the potentials (gravity, magnetostatic); potential field equations, continuation, differentiation of potential fields, Fundamental Principles of Gravity Prospecting, the Earth's gravity field, gravity instruments, gravity measurements (land, air, sea), gravity data reduction, interpretation of gravity data; Fundamental Principles of Magnetic Prospecting , Basic definitions and concepts (magnetic properties of rocks), the Earth's magnetic field, magnetic instruments, magnetic measurements (land, air, sea), magnetic data reduction, interpretation of magnetic data.