Courses

 Stanford University Department of Geophysics

Classes taught by Simon Klemperer - students in the "Crustal Geophysics" group should know all this material (and more!) - but the classes are aimed at a broad audience in the School of Earth Sciences

GLOBAL TECTONICS and TECTONICS FIELD TRIP

GP170 and GP171

Professor Simon Klemperer teaches these classes for geophysicists and geologists; the field trip GP171 may be repeated for credit

 

GP170 Global Tectonics

(formerly GP220; re-numbered as an upper-level undergraduate/beginning graduate class on the advice of students, but with no change in the content or level of material)

  • Survey of Global tectonic features: subduction zones, continental collision, rifts and passive margins, arcs and back-arcs, etc.
  • Offered alternate years only; next offered academic 2009/2010
  • Last offered Tu-Th 10:30-12:00, 3 units, LGI
  • Lectures, readings and term paper/presentation

GP171 Tectonics Field Trip

  • Long-weekend field trip to a region of active tectonics selected by prospective class participants to view large-scale tectonic features (compass and hand-lens encouraged but not needed) - check out a former trip here.
  • Not previously offered as a formal class; first offered Spring 2009; will be modelled on previous informal "Crustal Group:" field trips, including to Mendocino Triple Junction; to NW Basin & Range/Modoc Plateau; to Sierra Nevada and Mono Craters; to southern San Andreas Fault.  
  • Will be offered at least on alternate year basis; or annually by request
  • Mandatory long-weekend field trip; with preparatory lectures and student involvement in field trip organisation

 

SEISMIC REFLECTION METHODOLOGY, INTERPRETATION and PROCESSING

GP222, GP223, GP224

(formerly taught as GP182, GP183 and GP184; re-numbered as graduate-level classes on the advice of students, but with no change in the content or level of material)

Professor Simon Klemperer teaches this three-quarter sequence of classes
for geophysicists, geologists and petroleum engineers

GP222 Seismic Reflection Methodology (formerly GP182)

"This is the class I've been waiting for. Maybe it should be a required course. Simon is a great teacher."

(taken from Graduate Student Advisory Committee Geophysics Course Reviews)

  • Principles of seismic-reflection acquisition and processing
  • Offered alternate years only; next offered academic 2009/2010
  • Last offered Tu-Th 10:30-12:00, 3 units
  • Lectures, homeworks and final exam
  • Student-selected LGI (recommended for GP students, and required for GP students who wish to use this class to satisfy departmental degree requirements) or S/NC (recommended for less confident or less numerate GES students)

GP223 Seismic Reflection Interpretation (formerly GP183)

  • Structural and stratigraphic interpretation of reflection profiles. Lectures and hands-on seismic interpretation, including workstation experience.
  • Offered alternate years only; next offered academic 2009/2010
  • Last offered Tu-Th 10:30-12:00 (co-taught by Simon Klemperer (Mapping principles, Structural interpretation) and Stephan Graham (Stratigraphic interpretation))
  • 1-4 units: you may take lectures only for 1 unit; or also do the 9 labs for 4 units
  • Instructor-mandated CR/NC (do the work you need to learn the principles and methods; but don't waste time trying for an A+)

GP224 Seismic Reflection Processing (formerly GP184)

  • Hands-on experience of interactive computer processing of seismic data. Methodology of seismic processing; selection of processing tools and processing parameters.
  • Offered alternate years only; will be offered only when a quorum of students requests it
  • When last offered: MW 9, lab F 9, 3 units (Simon Klemperer)
  • Lectures and computer experience (ProMAX or SPW software depending on class needs; marine of land data depending on class interests)

 

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