Syllabus:
- Conduction of electricity through rocks, electrical conductivities of metals, nonmetals, rock forming minerals and different rocks,
- concepts of D.C. resistivity measurement and depth of investigation;
- Apparent Resistivity and Apparent Chargeability, Concept of Negative Apparent Resistivity and Negative Apparent Chargeability;
- Theory of Reciprocity, Sounding and Profiling,
- Various electrode arrangements,
- application of linear filter theory,
- Sounding curves over multi-layered earth,
- Dar-Zarrouk parameters, reduction of layers, Triangle of anisotropy,
- interpretation of resistivity field data,
- Principles of equivalence and suppression,
- self-potential method and its origin;
- Electrical Resitivity Tomography (ERT); ,
- Induced polarization, time and frequency domain IP measurements;
- interpretation and applications of SP, resistivity and IP data sets for ground-water exploration, mineral exploration, environmental and engineering applications.