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Gravity & Magnetic Methods Department

The Gravity & Magnetic Methods Department builds students' ability to interpret regional-scale geological structures using potential-field theory. Students practice acquiring gravity and magnetic survey data and applying advanced inversion techniques, working through projects on basin-geometry analysis, salt-dome detection, basement-structure interpretation, and mineral-deposit identification. Graduates can independently perform inversion-based structural interpretation for resource exploration projects.

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Field-based Curriculum · 12

This department's curriculum is built directly on the GeoVerse Lab research fields its professors hold — click a field to see how it is taught.

Marine Gravity Surveying
Marine Gravity Surveying
Teaches marine gravity surveying — the instrumentation challenge of measuring fr…
Felix Andries Vening Meinesz
Gravity Gradiometry (Torsion Balance & FTG)
Gravity Gradiometry (Torsion Balance & FTG)
Teaches why gravity-gradient surveying — measuring spatial derivatives of the fi…
Loránd Eötvös
Gravimeter Data Reduction & Terrain Correction
Gravimeter Data Reduction & Terrain Correction
Teaches the reduction sequence that turns raw gravity readings into Bouguer anom…
Sigmund Hammer
Shipboard & Marine Gravity Measurement Systems
Shipboard & Marine Gravity Measurement Systems
Teaches the core engineering problems of shipborne gravity systems that make con…
J. Lamar Worzel
Satellite Geodesy & Geoid Determination
Satellite Geodesy & Geoid Determination
Teaches satellite geodesy — determining the global gravity field and geoid from …
William M. Kaula
Aeromagnetic Survey & Magnetometer Instrumentation
Aeromagnetic Survey & Magnetometer Instrumentation
Teaches airborne magnetic surveying as acquisition engineering — how design vari…
Norman F. Ness
Marine & Ground Magnetics
Marine & Ground Magnetics
Teaches acquiring and interpreting marine magnetic stripes that read ridge sprea…
Drummond Matthews
Paleomagnetism & Rock Magnetism
Paleomagnetism & Rock Magnetism
Teaches palaeomagnetism and rock magnetism — reading apparent polar wander and c…
Keith Runcorn
Magnetic Anomaly Processing & Depth Estimation
Magnetic Anomaly Processing & Depth Estimation
Teaches, hands-on, the transformation toolbox of magnetic anomaly processing — R…
Isidore Zietz
3D Gravity & Magnetic Forward Modeling and Inversion
3D Gravity & Magnetic Forward Modeling and Inversion
Teaches turning gravity and magnetic anomalies into 3D density and susceptibilit…
Manik Talwani
Isostasy & Regional Crustal Structure
Isostasy & Regional Crustal Structure
Teaches the Airy and Pratt frameworks interpreting gravity anomalies through iso…
Veikko Aleksanteri Heiskanen
Continental Gravity Base Networks & Crustal Density Mapping
Continental Gravity Base Networks & Crustal Density Mapping
Teaches the metrological foundations of continental gravity base networks that b…
George P. Woollard