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Seismic Surveying

This document provides instructions for a seismic surveying homework assignment due on February 28, 2007. It includes 4 problems asking students to calculate: (1) P and S wave speeds using travel times between a hammer strike and detector, (2) depth to a horizontal interface using P wave travel times, (3) depth to an interface using travel time data in a table, and (4) depth to an interface using travel time vs distance graph data.

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Seismic Surveying

This document provides instructions for a seismic surveying homework assignment due on February 28, 2007. It includes 4 problems asking students to calculate: (1) P and S wave speeds using travel times between a hammer strike and detector, (2) depth to a horizontal interface using P wave travel times, (3) depth to an interface using travel time data in a table, and (4) depth to an interface using travel time vs distance graph data.

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Homework Assignment

Seismic Surveying (Problems taken from Computational Engineering Geology, by E. Derringh, 1998) Due Wednesday February 28, 2007
1. When one face of a slab is struck with a hammer, a detector at the opposite face 0.85 m away receives waves 230 s and 425 s later. Find the speeds of (a) the S waves, (b) the P waves in this rock. 2. Explorers are conducting a seismic reflection survey in a region in which a horizontal interface between two rock types is known to exist at some depth h. A geophone 186 m from the shot point receives P waves 62.0 ms and 87.7 ms after detonation. Find the depth to the interface. 3. A seismic survey yields the results shown below. Travel times are in ms and distances in meters. Find the depth to the horizontal interface.

4. A seismic refraction survey results in data fitting the lines shown on the graph below. Find the depth to the horizontal interface.

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