Department of Geophysical Sciences

Vision

The department works to provide a healthy scientific and educational atmosphere that attracts distinguished students who want to work in the field of subsurface exploration and prepare programs and plans in order to acquire the necessary scientific skills and values ​​to become successful individuals in their lives and work and to have the ability to bear responsibility in making the right scientific decision by employing their specialization. To serve the country and society. The department is keen to graduate promising students in their ideas, science, and exploratory decision-making to serve the community.

the message

Raising the level of geophysical exploratory work through academic research and field activities that aim to develop the graduate’s personal skills. It also prepares an intellectually open-minded person who is familiar with the developments of the times and has the ability to keep pace with its progress through the student’s scientific and academic background, enhanced by the field and applied aspect. The department focuses on the practical aspect, which qualifies graduates to work directly with relevant partnerships that benefit from these specializations.

Aims

The department aims to graduate scientific personnel with experience in academic fields that develop exploratory geophysical work. It also aims primarily to provide scientific personnel with the ability to implement exploratory projects in the fields of oil, minerals, antiquities, environment, construction and water resources.

The importance and applications of different geophysical methods

• Exploring planet Earth in comparison with the planets of the solar system within what is known as geodesy, which is a science that studies the dimensions of the planet, its rotation, and its orbits over millions of years.

• Exploring the main regions that make up the planet Earth and the physical characteristics of each region, starting from the Earth’s crust to its center, through analyzing seismic data.

• Exploring the change in thickness of continental and oceanic crust rocks and its relationship to plate tectonics and ancient Earth magnetism.

• Detecting and investigating the structures of oil reservoirs and determining their petrophysical characteristics, along with estimating their productivity through studying their extensions in the ground.

• Detection and investigation of mineral ore aggregates for gold, silver, copper, iron, and sulphide minerals rich in metals

• Investigating groundwater and groundwater reservoirs, the degree of their salinization or pollution, the extent of those reservoirs, and their productivity.

• Studying subsurface geological structures such as faults, folds, salt domes, etc., and linking these structures to the tectonic and structural situation.

• Engineering and environmental applications include studying the foundation rocks of giant structures such as dams, bridges, roads and railways. From an environmental standpoint, geophysical methods mean studying subsurface seepages from water near dams and factories and determining the dimensions and depths of subsidence resulting from human industrial activities.

The most important ministries and institutions that can benefit from graduates of the Geophysics Department

• Ministry of Oil/Petroleum Exploration Company.

• Ministry of Oil / Department of Reservoirs and Oil Fields Development.

• Ministry of Industry/General Company for Geological Survey and Mining.

• Ministry of Construction and Housing / National Center for Construction Laboratories.

• Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities / General Authority for Antiquities and Heritage.

• Ministry of Transport/Meteorology and Seismic Monitoring.

• Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research / various universities.

• Ministry of Water Resources/General Authority for Water Resources.

• Ministry of Water Resources/General Authority of Dams.

• Ministry of Transport/Meteorology and Seismic Monitoring.

Course description

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Lectures

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Teaching staff