Geophysics

The Geophysics research group has a broad focus that includes strengths in:

• earthquake monitoring, analysis and hazard mapping
• global geophysics and neotectonic surface response
• crustal heat-flow and heat generation
• borehole logging and petrophysical analysis
• 3D petrophysical modelling
• structural geophysics and potential field modelling and inversion.

The School of Earth Sciences also hosts the AuScope Australian Geophysical Observing System subsurface observatory program, which is acquiring and deploying a variety of geophysical monitoring tools around the country with a particular focus on monitoring the accessible crust.

The AGOS Petrophysics lab is based here and includes a GeoTech Multi Scanner Core Logger capable of measuring continuous density, p-wave velocity, magnetic susceptibility, electrical conductivity and natural gamma logs of drill core. The lab also contains numerous thermal conductivity instruments and scanners.

Visit the AuScope website

Visit the AuSIS website