May 09, 2024  
2012-2013 Graduate Catalog 
    
2012-2013 Graduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Courses


 

Decision Sciences

  
  • DISC 8396 - Research Practicum

    Cr. 3-9 (0-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of instructor. Supervised research in decision and information sciences.

  
  • DISC 8397 - Selected Topics in Decision and Information Sciences

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of chair. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • DISC 8398 - Special Problems

    Cr. 1-4 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment.
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of chair.

  
  • DISC 8399 - Doctoral Dissertation

    Cr. 3-9 per semester.
    Prerequisite: graduate standing

  
  • DISC 8498 - Special Problems

    Cr. 1-4 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment.
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of chair.

  
  • DISC 8695 - Teaching Practicum

    Cr. 3-9 (0-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of instructor. Supervised practice in the teaching of decision and information sciences.

  
  • DISC 8696 - Research Practicum

    Cr. 3-9 (0-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of instructor. Supervised research in decision and information sciences.

  
  • DISC 8699 - Doctoral Dissertation

    Cr. 3-9 per semester.
    Prerequisite: graduate standing

  
  • DISC 8995 - Teaching Practicum

    Cr. 3-9 (0-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of instructor. Supervised practice in the teaching of decision and information sciences.

  
  • DISC 8996 - Research Practicum

    Cr. 3-9 (0-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and approval of instructor. Supervised research in decision and information sciences.

  
  • DISC 8999 - Doctoral Dissertation

    Cr. 3-9 per semester.
    Prerequisite: graduate standing


Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

  
  • GEOL 6130 - Graduate Seminar

    Cr. 1-2 per semester. (0-2;1-2)
  
  • GEOL 6198 - Special Problems

    Cr. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, or 9 per semester.
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor or approval of chair.

  
  • GEOL 6199 - Master’s Thesis

    Cr. 1-9 per semester.
  
  • GEOL 6230 - Graduate Seminar

    Cr. 1-2 per semester. (0-2;1-2)
  
  • GEOL 6298 - Special Problems

    Cr. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, or 9 per semester.
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor or approval of chair.

  
  • GEOL 6299 - Master’s Thesis

    Cr. 1-9 per semester.
  
  • GEOL 6323 - Geoscience Applications of GPS and LIDAR

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in MSM or Engineering. Fundamental issues, hardware, software, and geosciences applications of Global Positioning System (GPS) and Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR); understanding errors in GPS and LIDAR measurements. Credit may not be applied for both GEOL 4332 & 6323.

  
  • GEOL 6324 - Satellite Positioning and Geodesy

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in MSM or Engineering. Theory of satellite-based positioning technologies, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), geodetic datum definition and coordinate systems, error modeling and data processing strategies.

  
  • GEOL 6325 - Remote Sensing

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Remote sensing methods, capabilities and limitations of methods, digital image processing, and applications of remote sensing.

  
  • GEOL 6326 - Applications of Geographic Information Systems

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Remote sensing methods, capabilities and limitations of methods, digital image processing, and applications of remote sensing.

  
  • GEOL 6331 - Seismic Data Processing

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Detailed use of seismic exploration tools and routines in a variety of real scenarios, both two- and three-dimensional, involving land and shallow- and deep-water marine data.

  
  • GEOL 6332 - Air Pollution Meteorology

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 4341 and GEOL 4342 or consent of instructor. Meteorological factors influencing air quality. Atmospheric dispersion and characteristics, land use and topographic effect, local circulations, effects of cloud and precipitation, long range transport, exchange between troposphere and stratosphere.

  
  • GEOL 6333 - Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: MATH 3363 or consent of instructor. Basic concepts of geofluid dynamic equations, fluid kinematics, principles of irrotational and rotating fluid motion, compressible and incompressible flow, boundary-layer theory, Boussinesq assumptions, hydrodynamic instability, perturbation dynamics, Rayleigh instability theorem, thermal convection, linear and nonlinear theories, Benard cells, and dynamic similitudes in geofluid systems such as atmosphere and ocean.

  
  • GEOL 6334 - Air Pollution Chemistry and Physics

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: MATH 3363 or consent of instructor. Emission sources and chemical transformations of urban, regional, and global scale air pollution including ozone, particulates, and acids deposition.

  
  • GEOL 6335 - Atmospheric Numerical Modeling

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: MATH 3363 or consent of instructor. Numeric modeling techniques used in atmospheric sciences including synoptic and mesoscale numerical weather forecasting, global climate modeling, and air pollution modeling.

  
  • GEOL 6336 - Boundary Layer Meteorology and Turbulence

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: MATH 3363 or consent of instructor. Boundary layer mean and turbulent motions, convective and stable boundary layers, boundary layer scaling and similarity theory, turbulence closures, and boundary layer modeling.

  
  • GEOL 6337 - Atmospheric Physics

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: MATH 3363 or consent of instructor. Physical principles in atmospheric sciences, including thermodynamics, radiative transfer, cloud physics and wave dynamics.

  
  • GEOL 6338 - Paleoclimate and Global Change

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor. Natural and anthropogenic global climate change, paleoclimates and paleogeography, evolution of the atmosphere, greenhouse effect, ozone depletion, ocean-atmosphere coupling, solar activity, Milankovitch cycles, effects of global change on agriculture, water resources and energy use.

  
  • GEOL 6339 - Igneous Petrology

    Cr. 3. (2-3)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 3371 and GEOL 3335 or consent of instructor. Integration of geochemical, geological, and petrographic data in the interpretation of the origin of igneous rocks.

  
  • GEOL 6340 - Metamorphic Petrology

    Cr. 3 (3-0)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 3370, GEOL 3372, and GEOL 3375, or consent of instructor. Mineral reactions, and textural changes in response to dynamothermal processes and applications of geothermobarometry and petrochonology to rocks from a variety of tectonic environments.

  
  • GEOL 6341 - Geochemistry

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 3371 and GEOL 3335 or consent of instructor. Principles of geochemistry, mineral-water stability relationships, isotope geochemistry, phase equilibria, and trace elements in igneous rocks.

  
  • GEOL 6343 - Geochemistry of Natural Waters

    Cr. 3. (1-6)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in NSM or Engineering, and consent of instructor; recommended: GEOL 6341. Field trips required; cost to be defrayed by student. A laboratory- and field-oriented course designed to teach chemical and isotopic analytical techniques.

  
  • GEOL 6344 - Stable Isotope Geochemistry

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in NSM or Engineering, consent of instructor, and GEOL 6341  (or consent of instructor). The application of stable isotope techniques to earth, ocean, and atmospheric sciences. Fundamental concepts of isotope equilibrium, mass balance, and kinetics are emphasized.

  
  • GEOL 6345 - Hydrochemistry

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 1330 and GEOL 6341  or CHEM 4370 or CHEM 4373, and graduate standing in Natural Sciences and Mathematics or Engineering, or consent of instructor. Application of thermodynamic principles to predict reactions in fluid-rock systems under low- and high-temperature and pressure conditions.

  
  • GEOL 6346 - Geochemistry of Water-Rock Systems

    Cr. 3 (3-0)
    Prerequisite: CHEM 1332, GEOL 3370, or consent of instructor. Processes controlling mineral alteration and chemical transport at low and high temperatures; aqueous geochemistry, chemical thermodynamics, and methods of calculating water-rock interactions and chemical-mass transfer.

  
  • GEOL 6347 - Sandstone Petrography

    Cr. 3. (2-3)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 3371 and GEOL 3335. Interpretation of provenance, depositional environment, and diagenesis of sandstones by petrographic analysis.

  
  • GEOL 6348 - Carbonate Petrography

    Cr. 3. (2-3)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 3371 and GEOL 3335. Discussion and petrographic and hand-specimen analyses of the origin and diagenesis of carbonate strata and their depositional environments.

  
  • GEOL 6349 - Geodynamics

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Earth’s layers (core, mantle, crust) and their interactions; mantle convection; lithosphere deformation and rheology; heat; magmatism; continental rifted margins; seafloor spreading; subduction.

  
  • GEOL 6350 - Advanced Structural Geology

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 3145, GEOL 3345, and MATH 2433. For geology majors.Analysis of geologic structures using surface and subsurface data.

  
  • GEOL 6351 - Geodynamics

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Earth’s layers (core, mantle, crust) and their interactions; mantle convection; lithosphere deformation and rheology; heat; magmatism; continental rifted margins; seafloor spreading; subduction.

  
  • GEOL 6352 - Microtectonics

    Cr. 3 (3-0)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 3345, GEOL 3373. Rock and mineral deformation in the interpretation of microstructural and petrofacbric data in relation to kinematics and rheology.

  
  • GEOL 6356 - Paleoecology

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Weekend field trips required; cost to be defrayed by student. Principles of paleoecology and analysis of modern and ancient invertebrate populations.

  
  • GEOL 6357 - Terrigenous Sedimentology

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 3350. Weekend field trips required; cost to be defrayed by student. Concepts and techniques concerning the processes and products related to the transportation and deposition of terrigenous sedimentary rocks.

  
  • GEOL 6358 - Terrigenous Depositional Models

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 4358, or consent of instructor. Modern terrigenous depositional systems as a basis for the interpretation of ancient terrigenous sedimentary rocks. Field trip(s) may be required, cost to be defrayed by student.

  
  • GEOL 6359 - Geological Analysis

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 3145, GEOL 3345, GEOL 3150, GEOL 3350, and MATH 2433; or consent of instructor. Statistical techniques for analysis of geologic data and selection of statistical models appropriate to geological problems.

  
  • GEOL 6360 - Rivers and Deltas

    Cr. 3 (3-0)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 3150, GEOL 3350, and GEOL 6358 , or consent of instructor. Modern processes and translation into ancient counterparts of river and delta deposits.

  
  • GEOL 6363 - Carbonate Sedimentology

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Field trip(s) required; cost to be defrayed by student. Discussion of the origins and criteria of recognition of carbonate accumulations from different depositional environments.

  
  • GEOL 6366 - Hydrogeology

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: CHEM 1332, MATH 1432, GEOL 1330, and PHYS 1312, graduate standing in Natural Sciences and Mathematics or Engineering, or consent of instructor. Field trips may be required; cost to be defrayed by student. Interdisciplinary study of groundwater, emphasizing the geologic aspects of groundwater flow and chemistry.

  
  • GEOL 6367 - Advanced Hydrogeology

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 6366 and MATH 2433, and graduate standing in Natural Sciences and Mathematics or Engineering, or consent of instructor. Advanced topics in hydrologic field methods and groundwater principles for saturated and unsaturated media, contaminant transport and numerical simulation of fluid flows.

  
  • GEOL 6368 - Fluvial Hydrology

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in Geosciences or Engineering, or consent of instructor. The flow of water and sediment in both overland and channelized flow conditions, including the hydrologic effects of changing land use.

  
  • GEOL 6369 - Isotope Geochronology

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 3335 and GEOL 3370, or consent of instructor. Commonly used radiogenic isotopic systems and their applications in geochronology, petrology, and tectonics.

  
  • GEOL 6370 - Integrated Biogeochemical Studies

    Cr. 3 (3-0)
    Prerequisite: MATH 3363, CHEM 1332, or consent of instructor. Natural biochemical cycles of relevant atmospheric species; factors that regulate cycles; interactions among biosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and atmosphere; perturbations of biogeochemical cycles; impact on ecosystems/human health.

  
  • GEOL 6371 - Isotope Geochemistry

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor. The fundamentals of the isotope systems used in the geosciences. The basics of both stable, radioactive, and radiogenic isotopes will be discussed. Fundamental concepts of geochronology and stable isotope fractionation and their relevance to tectonics, stratigraphy, climate, and meteorology will be discussed.

  
  • GEOL 6372 - Petroleum Geochemistry

    Cr. 3 (3-0)
    Prerequisite: CHEM 3332, or consent of instructor. Geological and geochemical constraints on petroleum generation and accumulation. Concepts and technology of petroleum geochemistry and their application in petroleum exploration, exploitation and production.

  
  • GEOL 6373 - Petroleum Systems Analysis

    Cr. 3 (3-0)
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Modern quantitative multi-disciplinary procedures for objective evaluation of petroleum potential of basins and exploration opportunites on the basis of statistical probabilities of hydrocarbon charge, reservoir, trap, and seal.

  
  • GEOL 6375 - Regional Tectonics Seminar

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 3345. Geologic history of specific regions within a plate tectonic framework. Origin and evolution of sedimentary basins, development and evolution of rifts, plate boundaries and orogenic belts. Geologic regions selected will vary.

  
  • GEOL 6376 - Advanced Tectonics and Sedimentation

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Field trip may be required; cost to be defrayed by student. Examination of sedimentary rocks and sedimentary basins that form near plate boundaries.

  
  • GEOL 6377 - Space Geology

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Planetary bodies and satellites in the solar system, meteorites, asteroids, comets, impact cratering, and shock metamorphism.

  
  • GEOL 6379 - Applied Biostratigraphy

    Cr. 3 (3-0)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 3350, GEOL 3330, or consent of instructor. Principles of biostratigrahy in the applications to solve geologic probelms by integrating biostratigraphy with multiple-sourced datasets, seismic, and geochronological data.

  
  • GEOL 6380 - Sequence Stratigraphy

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 3350 or consent of instructor. Subdivision of basin fills into genetic packages, lithostratigraphic, chronostratigraphic, biostratigraphic, seismostratigraphic and sedimentological bases for correlation, mapping of facies and stratigraphic prediction.

  
  • GEOL 6381 - Petroleum Geology

    Cr. 3 (3-0)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 3345, and GEOL 3350, or consent of instructor. Credit may not be given for both GEOL 4382, and GEOL 6381. Fundamentals of petroleum geology; source rock, reservoir, and trap studies; well log and seismic interpretation, petroleum geochemistry, and mapping.

  
  • GEOL 6382 - Plate Tectonics

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 3345 and GEOL 3350. The historical development of the plate tectonic theory and its seismological basis; kinematics of plate motion, geometry, and evolution of plate mosaics; geologic analysis of the structure and history of plate boundaries and ancient orogenic belts.

  
  • GEOL 6383 - Petroleum Geology of Gulf of Mexico and Latin America

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 3345, GEOL 3145, GEOL 3350, and GEOL 3150. Provides an integrated tectonic, stratigraphic, paleogeographic, and structural framework for the region to evaluate known and frontier petroleum areas.

  
  • GEOL 6384 - Petroleum Prospecting Workshop

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 6390 or consent of instructor. Interdisciplinary, team-based petroleum system analysis and prospect generation.

  
  • GEOL 6385 - Introduction to ArcInfo GIS

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Utilization of ArcInfo Geographic Information Systems to capture, store, update, manipulate, analyze, integrate and display all forms of geographically referenced information.

  
  • GEOL 6386 - Igneous Petrogenesis and Plate Tectonics

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 3371 and GEOL 3335. Major element, trace element and radiogenic characteristics of magmas generated in different tectonic settings, processes responsible for chemical diversity of magmas, and petrogenetic models for magmatism in terms of global tectonic processes.

  
  • GEOL 6387 - Reservoir Geophysics

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Reservoir characterization using geophysical methods, including time-lapse seismic and permanently-instrumented reservoirs.

  
  • GEOL 6388 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Introduction to Geographic Information Systems used in management, analyses and graphical presentation of spatial data set.

  
  • GEOL 6389 - Geographic Information Systems for Geologists

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 6388  or consent of instructor. Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS, ArcInfo, Spatial Analyst, 3-D Spatial Analyst) in geology, geophysics, geohazards, hydrology, environmental geosciences, petroleum geology and geophysics.

  
  • GEOL 6390 - 3-D Seismic Exploration I

    3.0 (3-0)
    Interpretation of the spatial component of three-dimensional seismic data in geologic structure and stratigraphy with emphasis on hydrocarbon exploration.

  
  • GEOL 6391 - Seismic Modeling

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    (also ECE 6391)

    Prerequisite: graduate standing in NSM or Engineering, or consent of instructor. Use of ray theory, finite difference, finite element, and pseudo-spectral analysis techniques as well as scaled physical modeling in simulating seismic wave propagation. Emphasis on understanding wave phenomena for hydrocarbon exploration.

  
  • GEOL 6392 - Migration of Seismic Data

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    (also ECE 6392 )

    Prerequisite: graduate standing in NSM or Engineering, or consent of instructor. Covers methods for processing seismic data to obtain a picture of the subsurface in both two and three dimensions.

  
  • GEOL 6393 - 3-D Seismic Exploration II

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Interpretation of the amplitude component of three-dimensional seismic data in predicting lithology and hydrocarbons. Correlation with logs, AVO, impedance inversion and reservoir characterization.

  
  • GEOL 6394 - Geophysical Data Acquisition

    Cr. 3 (2-3)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 4330 or equivalent or consent of instructor. Instruction in geophysical survey design, instrumentation (ultrasonic, well logging, VSP, seismic, GPS, and radar), data acquisition, and various software packages.  Local field surveys will be conducted.

  
  • GEOL 6395 - Petroleum Seismology

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor. Overview of seismic methods and the role they play in petroleum exploration and production. Topics include aspects of acquisition, processing, and interpretation.

  
  • GEOL 6396 - Graduate Seminar

    Cr. 3 (3-0)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Current research topics in the earth and atmospheric sciences. May be repeated for credit as seminar topics vary.

  
  • GEOL 6398 - Special Problems

    Cr. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, or 9 per semester.
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor or approval of chair.

  
  • GEOL 6399 - Master’s Thesis

    Cr. 1-9 per semester.
  
  • GEOL 6399 - Master’s Thesis

    Cr. 3, 6 or 9 per semester.
  
  • GEOL 6499 - Master’s Thesis

    Cr. 1-9 per semester.
  
  • GEOL 6598 - Special Problems

    Cr. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, or 9 per semester.
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor or approval of chair.

  
  • GEOL 6599 - Master’s Thesis

    Cr. 1-9 per semester.
  
  • GEOL 6698 - Special Problems

    Cr. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, or 9 per semester.
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor or approval of chair.

  
  • GEOL 6699 - Master’s Thesis

    Cr. 1-9 per semester.
  
  • GEOL 6699 - Master’s Thesis

    Cr. 3, 6 or 9 per semester.
  
  • GEOL 6798 - Special Problems

    Cr. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, or 9 per semester.
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor or approval of chair.

  
  • GEOL 6998 - Special Problems

    Cr. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, or 9 per semester.
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor or approval of chair.

  
  • GEOL 6999 - Master’s Thesis

    Cr. 1-9 per semester.
  
  • GEOL 6999 - Master’s Thesis

    Cr. 3, 6 or 9 per semester.
  
  • GEOL 7320 - Seismic Velocity

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 7333 . Factors governing seismic velocities in earth materials, methods of measuring velocity, and velocity inversion techniques needed to determine earth parameters; application of velocity data to exploration geophysics

  
  • GEOL 7321 - Multicomponent Seismic Processing

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 7333  and GEOL 7341 , or consent of instructor. Multicomponent (3C and 4C) acquisition techniques, elastic-wave signals analysis and processing (with emphasis on converted waves), and interpretation of PS with PP data using logs and VSP.

  
  • GEOL 7322 - Seismic Inversion: Current Concepts

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: GEOL 7332 or GEOL 7333 , or consent of instructor. Applied mathematical concepts and geophysical applications of two and three dimensional inversion of seismic data, emphasizing its applications in hydrocarbon.

  
  • GEOL 7323 - Borehole Geophysics

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Links borehole data to surface geophysical data. Rock physics, petrophysics, borehole seismics including VSP, borehole gravity and electromagnetics, well-logging methods.

  
  • GEOL 7325 - Petrophysics and Formation Evaluation

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of instructor. Description of rock and fluid properties and evaluation of petroleum-bearing formations, using coring and core analysis, rock catalogs, mud logging, and drill stem and wireline formation testing.

  
  • GEOL 7330 - Potential Field Methods of Geophysical Exploration

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: MATH 3363 or consent of instructor. Theory of gravitational and magnetic fields; gravity and magnetic instruments and field procedures; reduction and quantitative interpretation of gravity and magnetic data.

  
  • GEOL 7333 - Seismic Wave and Ray Theory

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: MATH 3321 or consent of instructor. Fundamental concepts and foundations of wave and ray theory with implications for the processing of seismic data.

  
  • GEOL 7334 - Survey of Field Procedures in Noise Reduction

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: MATH 3364 and GEOL 7333 , or consent of instructor. Field procedures for noise reduction; digital and analog filtering of seismic data; Fourier transforms, convolution, auto-correlation, crosscorrelation, and deconvolution; application to exploration problems.

  
  • GEOL 7337 - Wave-theoretical Seismic Processing 1

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Objectives, strategies, strengths and limitations of current seismic reflection data processing.

  
  • GEOL 7338 - Wave-theoretical Seismic Processing 2

    Cr. 3. (3-0)
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Wave theoretical principles, wavelet estimation, multipleattenuation, migration and migration-inversion.

 

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