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GEOS-4174: Exploration Seismology

Description: Theory and application of seismic methods to engineering, environmental and resource exploration: reflection seismics, refraction seismics, and tomography. Data acquisition, digital filtering, data corrections, imaging, interpretation, and forward modeling.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 4 credits

Prerequisites: (GEOS-3104 and MATH-2214 and MATH-2204H and PHYS-2305) or MATH-2204

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 10

Average GPA: 2.99 (B)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 24.35%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 1.76%

John A Hole202226.6%44.2%22.3%4.9%0.0%2.0%2.919
Matthias G Imhof200484.6%7.7%7.7%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.721

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