Michael S. Zhdanov Editorial for Special Issue “Geophysics for Mineral Exploration”
Jianfei Fu, Sanshi Jia and Ende Wang Combined Magnetic, Transient Electromagnetic, and Magnetotelluric Methods to Detect a BIF-Type Concealed Iron Ore Body: A Case Study in Gongchangling Iron Ore Concentration Area, Southern Liaoning Province, China
Fouzan A. Alfouzan, Abdulrahman M. Alotaibi, Leif H. Cox and Michael S. Zhdanov Spectral Induced Polarization Survey with Distributed Array System for Mineral Exploration: Case Study in Saudi Arabia

Настоящий курс лекций, обязательный для студентов геофизиков геологического факультета МГУ, базируется в основном на журнальной литературе. В нем впервые сведены воедино и систематизированы главнейшие достижения по кинематике рефрагированных волн в вертикально-неодронодных средах.

Рассмотрены общие свойства колебательных процессов, происходящих в радиотехнических, механических и других системах, а также различные методы их изучения. Большое внимание уделено рассмотрению параметрических, автоколебательных и других нелинейных систем. Изучение данных колебательных систем проведено известными методами теории колебаний без подробного изложения и обоснования самих методов. По наиболее важным темам приведены задачи для самостоятельного решения.

Предназначено для студентов электротехнических направлений и специальностей технических вузов.

High-pressure mineral physics is a field that is strongly driven by the development of new technology. Fifty years ago, when experimentally achievable pressures were limited to just 25 GPa, little was known about the mineralogy of the Earth’s lower mantle. Silicate perovskite, the likely dominant mineral of the deep Earth, was identified only when the high-pressure techniques broke the pressure barrier of 25 GPa in the 1970s. However, as the maximum achievable pressure reached beyond 1 Megabar (100 GPa) and even to the pressure of Earth’s core on minute samples, new discoveries were increasingly fostered by the development of new analytical techniques and improvements in sensitivity and precision of existing techniques.

Chiara Colombero, Cesare Comina and Alberto Godio Special Issue “Remote Sensing in Applied Geophysics”
Edward R. Henry, Alice P. Wright, Sarah C. Sherwood, Stephen B. Carmody, Casey R. Barrier and Christopher Van de Ven Beyond Never-Never Land: Integrating LiDAR and Geophysical Surveys at the Johnston Site, Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park, Tennessee, USA
Luca Piroddi, Sergio Vincenzo Calcina, Antonio Trogu and Gaetano Ranieri Automated Resistivity Profiling (ARP) to Explore Wide Archaeological Areas: The Prehistoric Site of Mont’e Prama, Sardinia, Italy
Rita Deiana, David Vicenzutto, Gian Piero Deidda, Jacopo Boaga and Michele Cupit `o Remote Sensing, Archaeological, and Geophysical Data to Study the Terramare Settlements: The Case Study of Fondo Paviani (Northern Italy)

In China, oil and gas resources mainly accumulated in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic continental basins, and the proven reserves of oil and gas in continental basins account for three-quarters and nearly half of China’s total reserves, respectively (Zhai, 1996). Almost 95% of the proven oil reserves in China are concentrated in continental basins (Dai, 2000). After more than half a century of exploration, a large number of structural reservoirs and some lithological and stratigraphic reservoirs were discovered in continental basins. Although the exploration efforts of many Mesozoic and Cenozoic basins has been relatively high, especially for eastern basins, there is still a great potential for the exploration of lithological and stratigraphic reservoirs. In order to promote petroleum exploration development, we must develop new technologies and methods, and strengthen the basic research theories targeting lithological and stratigraphic reservoirs, using petroleum geological characteristics of continental basins (Jia, 2003). <...>

The use and application of in-situ testing has continued to expand in the past few decades. This paper focuses on some major in-situ tests (SPT, CPT and DMT) and presents selected insights that the geotechnical engineering profession may find helpful. Many of the recommendations contained in this paper are focused on low to moderate risk projects where empirical interpretation tends to dominate. For projects where more advanced methods are more appropriate, the recommendations provided in this paper can be used as a screening to evaluate critical regions/zones where selective additional in-situ testing and sampling may be appropriate. <...>

Whole Earth Geophysics illustrates how different types of geophysical observations provide constraints on Earth’s gross structure and composition. It introduces geology students with a basic grounding in math and physics to the fundamentals of various geophysical techniques, but does not stop there. Specific observations illustrate how each technique constrains certain aspects of the plate tectonic framework that is fundamental to the study of Earth science today.
This book is designed for a Solid Earth Geophysics course at the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level. While the primary objective is to illustrate the utility of geophysical observations to geology students, geophysics students may benefit from the book by seeing the basics of their discipline in the context of geology. <...>

This book focuses on remote sensing systems, algorithms, and their applications for evaluation of natural resources, especially in the areas of sampling design, land use and land cover (LULC) characterization and classification, natural landscape and ecosystem assessment, forestry and agriculture mapping, biomass and carbon cycle modeling, wetland classification and dynamics monitoring, and soils and minerals mapping.