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GEO4620 - Seismic waves and seismology

Course content

This course gives a basis for understanding how elastic waves, generated by earthquakes or controlled sources, propagate through the earth and thus provide information about its interior.

Learning outcome

When you have completed this course:

  • you know how strain and stress are related in elastic materials and are familiar with the elastic wave equation
  • you understand how elastic waves progagate through the Earth
  • you can quantify how interfaces reflect, refract and convert waves
  • you know how elastic properties like attenuation and anisotropy affect wave propagation
  • you have seen how numerical modelling can be used to simulate wave propagation
  • you can use ray theory and is aware of its strengths and limitations

Admission

Students at UiO must apply for courses in StudentWeb.

International applicants, if you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.

Overlapping courses

10 credits overlap with GEO9620 - Seismic Waves and Seismology.

Teaching

Lectures/colloquia, including problem solving. Up to 3 mandatory exercises which have to be approved before you can sit for the final exam.

Examination

Written exam (3 hours) which counts 100%.

The final exam questions will only be written in english.

Grading scale

Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.

External auditor: Rolf Mjelde

Explanations and appeals

You may request an explanation of your grades, and you may also appeal against your grades or make a complaint about formal examination errors. Read more about explanations and appeals.

Resit an examination

You can usually resit an exam, but the conditions depend on whether you had a valid reason for absence from the regular exam. Read more about resitting an exam.

Withdrawal from an examination

A student may sit this exam up to 3 times. If a student wishes to withdraw from the exam, s/he must do so in StudentWeb at least two weeks prior to the first day of the exam. Failure to do so will be counted as one of the three opportunities to sit the exam.

Special examination arrangements

If you have a disability or a health problem that entails significant inconvenience in an examination situation, you may be considered for special examination arrangements. Mothers who are breastfeeding may apply for extra time to complete the exam.

Evaluation

Feedback from our students is essential to us in our efforts to ensure and further improve the high quality of our programmes and courses. All courses are subject to continuous evaluation. At regular intervals we also ask students on a particular course to participate in a more comprehensive, periodic evaluation of this course.

Facts about this course

Credits

10

Level

Master

Teaching

Every autumn

Examination

Every autumn

Teaching language

English

Semester pages

Teaching schedule, syllabus, examination date