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Dr. MAHMOUD M. ELWAHEIDI د. محمود محمد الوحيدي

Associate Professor

Environmental & Engineering Geophysics (including atmospheric geophysics)

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P.O.Box 2455, Riyadh 11451 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

+966-11-467-6205
melwaheidi@ksu.edu.sa
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GPH 424 Environmental Geophysics - Course Syllabus 2016/2017

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King Saud University
College of Science
Geology and Geophysics Department.
 		 جامعة الملك سعود
كلية العلوم
قسم الجيولوجيا والجيوفيزياء   

 

Academic Year 1438- 1439H (2017 – 2018)
Second Semester
 

Environmental Geophysics (GPH 424)
 
Lecture’s Time: Monday & Wednesday: 13:00 -13:50                       Lecture’s Room: B 80/ 2
                                                                                                                  
Instructor: Dr. Mahmoud M. ELWAHEIDI
Office Hours: Sunday, Monday & Tuesday: 11:00 am -12:00 am
email: melwaheidi@ksu.edu.sa   Web: http://fac.ksu.edu.sa/melwaheidi/home
Office No:   2B129                                                              Tel. No: 4676205

  1. COURSE   OUTLINES
Activity No of  Weeks No. of hours
General Introduction:

  1. Basic concepts and definitions of Environemntal Geophysics
  2. Site investigation

 

  
1		  
2
Electrical Resistivity Methods:

  1. Basic principles
  2. Resistivity of earth materials
  3. Law of Archie
  4. Electrode configurations
  5. Field procedures: VES, Profiling and ERT
  6. Interpretation of Geoelectric data: Master curves and computer modeling. 
  7. Limitations of Electrical methods
  8. Fields of applications
  9. Case Studies: Waste site; Groundwater; Geology; Archaeology
 
 
 
 
 
3		  
 
 
 
 
6
Seismic Methods:

  1. Basic principles of reflection and refraction methods
  2. Processing of seismic data
  3. Interpretation of Seismic data

 

  
 
3		  
 
6
Gravity Method:

  1. Basic principles  
  2. Corrections of gravity data
  3.  Interpretation
  4. Case Studies

 

  
 
2		  
 
4
Magnetic Method:

  1. Basic principles  
  2. Corrections of magnetic data
  3.  Interpretation
  4. Case Studies

 

  
2		  
4
GPR Method:

  1. Basic principles  
  2. Interpretation
  3. Case Studies

 

  
2		  
4
II. GRADING SYSTEM
Assessment Assessment task Week due Proportion of Final Assessment
1 Presentation (Case Study on an Environmental Issue) 10th week 10 %
2 Mid-term exam Wednesday, March 28, 2018 25%
3 Assignments, Attendance, project &  Quizzes    Alternatively, every two weeks 25 %
4 Final exam   40 %
  III. Text Books- References