Geophysical methods of exploration activity

Frolova Olga Vyacheslavovna

The instructor profile

Description: Geophysical methods of prospecting and exploration of mineral deposits are the most progressive and modern methods of studying the earth's interior. Especially great is their role in the search and exploration of oil and gas. Geophysical methods are used both to study the structural occurrence of geological strata (structural geophysics), as well as in direct searches for mineral deposits.

Amount of credits: 5

Пререквизиты:

  • Physics

Course Workload:

Types of classes hours
Lectures 15
Practical works 30
Laboratory works
SAWTG (Student Autonomous Work under Teacher Guidance) 30
SAW (Student autonomous work) 75
Form of final control Exam
Final assessment method Exam

Component: Component by selection

Cycle: Profiling disciplines

Goal
  • The purpose of teaching the discipline is to familiarize students with the basic geophysical methods of prospecting and exploration of mineral deposits, widely used in solving problems of geological mapping, prospecting and exploration of ore deposits, non-metallic raw materials and hydrocarbons, engineering-geological and hydrogeological problems.
Objective
  • Tasks: - acquisition of knowledge about modern geophysical methods; - acquisition of skills in working with geophysical equipment; - familiarization of students with the basic geophysical methods of prospecting and exploration of mineral deposits.
  • получение навыков работы с геофизической аппаратурой;
  • ознакомление студентов с основными геофизическими методами поисков и разведки месторождений полезных ископаемых.
Learning outcome: knowledge and understanding
  • students should know and understand about the modern methodology of geophysical research;
Learning outcome: applying knowledge and understanding
  • Students should have the following skills: working with geophysical equipment;
Learning outcome: formation of judgments
  • As a result of the training, students form certain judgments about the basic geophysical methods of prospecting and exploration of mineral deposits;
Learning outcome: communicative abilities
  • Students' communication abilities are manifested in their ability to collectively discuss various problematic issues of geomorphology, joint participation in reports at conferences, scientific publications and various competitions;
Learning outcome: learning skills or learning abilities
  • during their studies, students acquire certain theoretical and practical skills in the search and exploration of groundwater and show the ability to study, which is confirmed by the verification of their knowledge by attestation commissions of various levels.
Teaching methods

Technology of critical thinking development, Technology of developing learning.

Assessment of the student's knowledge

Teacher oversees various tasks related to ongoing assessment and determines students' current performance twice during each academic period. Ratings 1 and 2 are formulated based on the outcomes of this ongoing assessment. The student's learning achievements are assessed using a 100-point scale, and the final grades P1 and P2 are calculated as the average of their ongoing performance evaluations. The teacher evaluates the student's work throughout the academic period in alignment with the assignment submission schedule for the discipline. The assessment system may incorporate a mix of written and oral, group and individual formats.

Period Type of task Total
1  rating Flotation enrichment 0-100
Hydrometallurgical enrichment
Electrophysical properties determining the behavior of minerals in flotation processes
Electrophysical properties determining the behavior of minerals in flotation processes
2  rating Pre-enrichment methods (ore quality management) 0-100
Methods for determining the electrophysical, electrochemical properties of ores in field studies
Physical methods of pre-enrichment during ore preparation
Optimization of a set of parameters when performing geological and technological mapping at deposits with difficult-to-enrich pyrite-polymetallic ores
Total control Exam 0-100
The evaluating policy of learning outcomes by work type
Type of task 90-100 70-89 50-69 0-49
Excellent Good Satisfactory Unsatisfactory
Evaluation form

The student's final grade in the course is calculated on a 100 point grading scale, it includes:

  • 40% of the examination result;
  • 60% of current control result.

The final grade is calculated by the formula:

FG = 0,6 MT1+MT2 +0,4E
2

 

Where Midterm 1, Midterm 2are digital equivalents of the grades of Midterm 1 and 2;

E is a digital equivalent of the exam grade.

Final alphabetical grade and its equivalent in points:

The letter grading system for students' academic achievements, corresponding to the numerical equivalent on a four-point scale:

Alphabetical grade Numerical value Points (%) Traditional grade
A 4.0 95-100 Excellent
A- 3.67 90-94
B+ 3.33 85-89 Good
B 3.0 80-84
B- 2.67 75-79
C+ 2.33 70-74
C 2.0 65-69 Satisfactory
C- 1.67 60-64
D+ 1.33 55-59
D 1.0 50-54
FX 0.5 25-49 Unsatisfactory
F 0 0-24
Topics of lectures
  • Interactive technologies and methods, game technologies
  • Application of magnetic exploration
  • Gravity exploration
  • Gravimetric survey
  • Electrical exploration
  • Seismic exploration
  • Nuclear and geophysical exploration
  • Geophysical methods of well research
  • Principles of integration of geophysical methods
  • Biolocation methods of MPI searches
Key reading
  • 1. Геофизика: учебное пособие, электронное издание сетевого распространения / под редакцией В.К. Хмелевского. — М.: «КДУ», «Добросвет», 2018. https://bookonlime.ru/product/geofizika
  • 2. Практикум по обработке данных сейсморазведки МОВ-ОГТ. Руководство к практическим занятиям по курсу «Сейсморазведка». Издание второе, переработанное: учебное пособие, электронное издание сетевого распространения / Гайнанов В.Г. — М.: «КДУ», «Добросвет», 2018. ISBN 978-5-7913-1080-4 https://bookonlime.ru/product/praktikum-po-obrabotke-dannyh-seysmorazvedki-mov-ogt
  • 3 Фролова О.В. Геофизические методы разведки. Видео-лекции https://www.youtube.com/@EKTU-kz
  • 4. Соколов, А.Г. Геофизические методы поисков и разведки месторождений полезных ископаемых :учебное пособие / А.Г. Соколов, Н. В. Черных; Оренбургский гос. ун-т. – Оренбург : ОГУ, 2015.- 143 с. https://www.geokniga.org/bookfiles/geokniga-geofizicheskie-metody-poiskov-i-razvedki-mestorozhdeniy-poleznyh-iskopaemyh.pdf
  • 5. Прямая задача гравиразведки и магниторазведки (конспект лекций). Учебное пособие / А.А. Булычев, И.В. Лыгин, Т.Б. Соколова, К.М. Кузнецов. – М.: «Университетская книга», 2019. – 176 с. – ISBN 978-5-91304-877-6 – doi: 10.31453/kdu.ru.91304.0040. – URL: https://bookonlime.ru/node/4555/
  • 6. Отчет по научно-исследовательской работе: Системный металлогенический анализ щелочного магматизма и редкометального оруденения северных отрогов Тарбагатая (месторождения Верхнее Эспе, Ийсор, Сандыктас, Кызылсай, Северное, северная часть Акжайляутасского массива и ближайшие редкометальные проявления) (промежуточный): утв. 30.10. 2015 / МОиН РК, ВКГТУ им. Д. Серикбаева; рук. работы О. Д. Гавриленко. - УстьКаменогорск: ВКГТУ, 2016. - 117 с.: граф., ил., табл. (научно-библиографический отдел научной библиотеки ВКГТУ им. Д. Серикбаева)
  • 7. Eidsvik, Jo. Value of Information in the Earth Sciences: Integrating Spatial Modeling and Decision Analysis / J. Eidsvik, T. Mukerji, D. Bhattacharjya. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press , 2015. - ил.(научно-библиографический отдел научной библиотеки ВКГТУ им. Д. Серикбаева)
  • 8. Соколов А.Г., Попова О.В., Кечина Т.М. Полевая геофизика. Учебное пособие/Оренбургский государственный университет, ЭБС АСВ. – 2015 г. https://www.iprbookshop.ru/33649.html
Further reading
  • 1. Фролова О.В. Геофизические методы разведки МПИ. Электроразведка. Электронный учебник, 2012.
  • 2. Исаев В.И. Интерпретация данных гравиметрии и геотермии при прогнозировании и поисках нефти и газа: учебное пособие для вузов. – Томск: изд-во ТПУ, 2010. – 172 с. https://www.geokniga.org/bookfiles/geokniga-interpretaciya-dannyh-gravimetrii-i-geotermii-pri-prognozirovanii-i-poiskah-.pdf
  • 3. Хмелевской В.К., Костицын В.И. Основы геофизических методов: учебник для вузов – Пермь: Перм. ГУ, 2010. – 400 с. http://www.psu.ru/files/docs/science/books/uchebnie-posobiya/Hmelevskoj_osnovy_geofizicheskih_metodov.pdf
  • 4. Геофизика: учебник / Под ред. В.К. Хмелевского – М.: КДУ, 2007. – 320 с. https://www.geokniga.org/bookfiles/geokniga-uchebnik-po-geofizike.pdf
  • 5 Гусев Е.В. Методы полевой геофизики: учебное пособие. – Томск: Изд*во ТПУ, 2007. -222 с. https://portal.tpu.ru/files/departments/publish/Gusev_maket.pdf
  • 6. А. В. Старовойтов. Интерпретация георадиолокационных данных Учеб. пособие : [по специальности 011200 Геофизика], 2008. http://znayugeo.ru/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/starovoytov_a_v_interpretatsiya_georadiolokatsionnykh_dannyh1.pdf
  • 7. Методика, техника и результаты геофизической разведки рудных месторождений: науч. изд. / Академия наук Армянской ССР, Институт геофизики и инженерной сейсмологии; ред. В. В. Бродовой. - Ереван: Изд-во АН АрмССР, 1986. - 268 с.: ил. (научно-библиографический отдел научной библиотеки ВКГТУ им. Д. Серикбаева)
  • 8. Павлов А.Н. Геофизика. Общий курс о природе Земли. Учебник/Российский государственный гидрометеорологический университет. – 2006 г. https://www.iprbookshop.ru/12484.html