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Seismic Refraction

Robert Cicerone

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Bridgewater State College

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Initial Publication Date: July 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).

Seismic refraction | College Upper (15-16)

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Audience

Undergraduate 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.

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Laboratory exercise

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Activity Description/Assignment (Microsoft Word 45kB Jul5 07)

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