Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

GPH 307 — Magnetic Prospecting Methods

GPH department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• explain magnetic methods in geophysical exploration for natural resources, onshore and offshore Nigeria; and
• describe how magnetic data is acquired, processed and interpreted for geological mapping of structures and minerals

Course contents

Fundamentals of magnetic dipole interactions with applications to simple mass distributions. Gauss theorem. The filed equation. Instrumentation and field procedures. Reduction of magnetic data. Anomaly separation and interpretation. Air-borne and sea-borne magnetic surveys. Data acquisition and interpretation.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study GPH 307.

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