Field Geophysics

by John Milsom

Book Overview

A concise handbook for small-scale geophysical surveys, covering essential field techniques and associated equipment. Incorporates a wealth of practical detail, based on the author's many years of field experience as a consultant geophysicist. Emphasis is on practice rather than theory, with discussion of problems commonly encountered in the field. Includes many useful examples, supported by handy tables and checklists. Illustrated.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471932485
• ISBN13: 9780471932482
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 192 Pages

Customer Reviews

Great book

I wish I would have had this book six years ago when I started performing geophysical field work. This book covers everything that you would possibly need to think of when doing small scale geophysical surveys. I have purchased copies of this book for all of the new geophysicists that I work with so they won't make the same mistakes that I did. I read the entire book and highlighted the best sugestions and dog eared a lot of pages.

Update for middle age professionals

This book is a chance to update new advances, technics, and methods in geophysics. I rather think this is focused for professionals (on Geology or Geophysics) who have been dealing with a specific area for some years and need to know about the state of the art on Geophysical methods. New developments in GPR, Gravimetry, Magnetometry, Seismic and Electrical exploration is a pretty good chance to take an updated overview on Geophysics. I recommend such issue as an overview of modern Geophysics, it is not necessary to get involved in hard math develops to understand the goal of the book.

A very pratical guide...

John thinks of every eventuality in the field, and especially recommends a very natty rubber mac - I can just see him in it! This book covers every geophysical field technique useful for four or less people (which does NOT include remote sensing, as the person above seems not to recognise). It is written in the same dry, and sometimes faintly sarcastic vein, that anyone who knows him will recognise.

Field Geophysics

This book covers almost all of the current geophysics topics. It gives a sometimes too brief description of the equipment. Reviews the theory and discusses field operations with many helpful hint to stay out of trouble. The book does not cover remote sensing or the metal detector which too many geologists have written off as mearly a hobby