Biochemical Sedimentary
Rocks The Earth System involves many interactions between living organisms and the…
Clastic Sedimentary Rocks Formation
Nine hundred years ago, a thriving community of Native Americans inhabited the…
Types of Caprocks in Petroleum System
Cap rock Caprock is a rock that prevents the flow of a…
Induced Polarization
Introduction Conrad Schlumberger (Dobrin 1960) probably was first to report the induced…
Electrical Methods
Basic Concept Electrical geophysical prospecting methods detect the surface effects produced by…
Seismic Wave Theory
Compressional Waves, which are also called P waves, are basically the same…
Electric resistivity methods
rface. These methods utilize differences in electric potential to identify subsurface material.…
Magnetic Methods
Basic Concepts The Earth possesses a magnetic field caused primarily by sources…
Geophysical Methods
Geophysical techniques work through applying one of several types of force to…
Magnetism of rocks and minerals
The overall magnetization of the rocks is a vector sum of induced…




