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TITLE: The Tailings Project: Geophysics for estimating calcine volume.


Prerequisites:
The context will be better understood if the related "Setup" and "Properties" activities have be run, but they are not essential.
Objectives:
During this activity you become involved in the process of chosing surveys, considering data, and interpreting for one of the tasks in the Tailings project case history.
Activities: Action maze decision-making activity, supported with quiz-style activities with built-in checking of responses.
Related resources:
There are several exercises associated with "The Tailings Project", each representing one aspect of applying geophysics to this multi-faceted geotechnical / environmental situation. They are based upon aspects of the general seven step framework that helps with application of geophysics to geoscience problems.
  • Step 1: setting up the application of geophysics to the problem.
  • Step 2: establishing the physical properties relevant for each task.
  • Steps 3, 4, 5, 6: Chosing surveys, collecting data & carrying out processing for addressing one of the tasks at this project, estimating volume of calcine (the currently open exercise).
  • Step 7: A synthesis project activity involving much of the whole case history.
Acknowledgements:

Members of the UBC Department of Civil Engineering are thanked for their contributions towards the understanding of the site and it's problems, and for RCPTU data. The following graduate and undergraduate students at UBC helped with data acquisition: Kevin Jarvis, Paul McGeer, Partha Routh. The BCcampus organization supported development of the Learning Objects produced by AGLO.

Dr. D.W. Oldenburg, Professor of Geophysics and director of the UBC Geophysical Inversion Facility supported the field work, and much of the data processing and interpretation. All data and images of data and models are copyright UBC-GIF , 2004.
CONTEXT
Audience
General
Geoscience
Geophysics
Framework Steps
1.  Setup
2.  Properties
3.  Survey
4.  Data
5.  Processing
6.  Interpretation
7.  Synthesis
8.  Background
Area of geoscience
Engineering/Geotechnical
Environmental/Hydrology
Geology/Exploration

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