Seismic Refraction
Robert Cicerone
, Bridgewater State College
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This page first made public: Jul 5, 2007
Summary
This lab allows the students to review the relevant formulas for the analysis of seismic refraction data and provides three different data sets to analyze three different geologic settings (three-layer model, dipping inferface, fault).
Context
Audience
Undergraduate geophysics course
Designed for a geophysics course
Designed for a geophysics course
Skills and concepts that students must have mastered
The students should be familiar with the analysis of travel-time curves constructed from seismic refraction data.
How the activity is situated in the course
Laboratory exercise
Goals
Content/concepts goals for this activity
Higher order thinking skills goals for this activity
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Description of the activity/assignment
Determining whether students have met the goals
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- Activity Description/Assignment (Microsoft Word 45kB Jul5 07)
