Faculty of Science

Objectives

To use the nature of changes in the conductivity of rocks to determine the location of conducting minerals and underground water.

Contents

Electrical Properties of Earth Materials, conduction in metals, semiconductors, water bearing rocks; The Direct Current Resistivity Method , electric potential (Laplace's equation), resistivity measurements, electrode configurations in resistivity surveys (Werner, Schlumberger and dipole-dipole arrays), interpretation of resistivity data; The Self Potential (SP) Method , origin of SP, instrumentation, field procedure, interpretation; The Induced Polarization (IP) Method , sources of the IP effect, measurement techniques, interpretation; Electromagnetic Methods, general principles, the Magneto-Telluric (MT) Method, the Turam EM Method.