GEO4620 – Seismic Waves and Seismology
Course description
Schedule, syllabus and examination date
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 will be able to
- explain how elastic waves propagate through the Earth
- quantify how interfaces reflect, refract and convert seismic waves
- quantify how elastic properties like attenuation and anisotropy affect the waveforms
- use numerical modelling to simulate wave propagation
- use ray theory and discuss its strengths and limitations
- explain the basic principles of seismic tomography
- read and present recent publications on wave propagation
Admission to the course
Students admitted at UiO must?apply for courses?in Studentweb. Students enrolled in other Master's Degree Programmes can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme.
Nordic citizens and applicants residing in the Nordic countries may?apply to take this course as a single course student.
If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about?admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.
Recommended previous knowledge
- MAT1100 – Calculus
- MAT1120 – Linear Algebra
- IN1900 – Introduction to Programming with Scientific Applications / MAT-IN1105 – Programming, Modelling and Computations (discontinued) / INF1100 – Introduction to programming with scientific applications (continued)
- FYS-MEK1110 – Mechanics (discontinued)
- GEO2140 – Solid Earth Geophysics / GEL2140 – Geophysics and global tectonics (continued)
- GEO2300 – Geophysical Modelling
Overlapping courses
- 10 credits overlap with GEO9620 – Seismic Waves and Seismology.
Teaching
Teaching consists of lectures/colloquia, including problem-solving. Up to 3 mandatory exercises/presentations have to be approved before you can sit the final examination.
Attendance at the first lecture is compulsory. Students who fail to meet are considered to have withdrawn from the course unless they have previously given notice to the Student administration (studieinfo@geo.uio.no).?
We reserve the right to change the teaching?form and examination of the course in semesters where 5 or fewer students have been admitted.
Examination
Up to 3 mandatory exercises/presentations must be approved before you can sit the final examination.
A final oral examination counts 100% towards the final grade.
Mandatory assignments are valid for 5 semesters starting from the semester they were approved the first time.
It is possible to take the exam up to 3 times. If you?withdraw from the exam?after the deadline or during the exam, this will be counted as an examination attempt.
It will also be counted as 1 of the 3 attempts to sit the exam for this course if you sit the exam for the following course:
Examination support material
Language of examination
Courses taught in English will only offer the exam paper in English.
You may write your examination paper in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or 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.
Resit an examination
Students who can document a valid reason for absence from the regular examination are offered a postponed examination at the beginning of the next semester.
Re-scheduled examinations are not offered to students who withdraw during, or did not pass, the original examination.
More about examinations at UiO
- Use of sources and citations
- Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
- Withdrawal from an exam
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.