GEOL 420 Applied Geophysics

Cal Poly SLO Fall Quarter 2024 | Learn about Cal Poly Geology

Instructor: John Jasbinsek (email John) | Syllabus and Schedule

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Course Mantra

"While you are doing geophysics you are thinking geologically."

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GEOL 420 gang at Swanton Pacific Ranch (Fall 2016). Just how deep is this agricultural aquifer? Only Sir Pentinite (on the wagon handle) knows for sure ...

Daily/Course Log

Daily/Course Log page.

Handouts, notes, and comments about our weekly lab and class meetings. For example, this page is used to distribute copies of any course materials related to a particular lab or class meeting. More general resources for topic can be found on the corresponding Topical Pages, the Data Library page, etc.

Topical Pages


Note that the topical pages are not meant to be primary learning resources in and of themselves - you have reading assignments for that. They are designed to provide you (1) the topic references (reading assignments/resources), and (2) various bits of supplementary information to the main readings. In this sense they organize and supplement.

Course Introduction

Electrical Methods

Seismic Refraction

Course Resources


Application areas of near-surface geophysics


Our course focuses strongly on the application of NSG to groundwater/hydrogeology. However many areas of application of the same methods exist. Some areas are linked to below in various states of detail (and of course the list will always be incomplete).

Further Geophysical Methods


We won't have time cover these this term, but some of these will be added to the semester curriculum beginning in Fall 2026.



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