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.
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Our Researchers
- Dr David Belton
dxbelton@unimelb.edu.au
+61 3 9035 9771 - Dr Steven Boger
sdboger@unimelb.edu.au
+61 3 8344 0317 - Dr Matthew Cupper
cupper@unimelb.edu.au
+61 3 8344 6521 - Professor Louis Moresi
louis.moresi@unimelb.edu.au
+61 3 8834 1217 - Dr Tim Rawling
tim.rawling@unimelb.edu.au
+61 3 8344 4051 - Professor Mike Sandiford
mikes@unimelb.edu.au
+61 3 8344 7221 - Associate Professor Lindsay Thomas
lindsayt@unimelb.edu.au