This course covers the topics:
- Earthquakes and Earth structure
- Seismic waves
- Seismic sources
- Seismic phase
- Building a seismogram
- Stress and strain
- Plane wavers
- Wavefronts and rays
- Rays in stratification
- Waves in stratification
- Reflection and transmission
- Building the response of a model
- Constructing the wavefield
- Body waves and surface waves
- Near events
- Propagation effects at near distances
- Regional phases propagation in the upper mantle
- Upper mantle structure
- Analysis of regional an dfar-regional seismograms
- The nature of the global wavefield
- Body waves in the mantle
- Body waves in the Earth core
- Surface waves and modal analysis
- Receiver based studies
- The influence of heterogeneity
- Imaging the Earth
- 3D global structure
- Mapping the lithosphere and upper mantle.
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Requisite and Incompatibility
Fees
Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.
If you are a domestic graduate coursework or international student you will be required to pay tuition fees. Students continuing in their current program of study will have their tuition fees indexed annually from the year in which you commenced your program. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.
- Student Contribution Band:
- 2
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees. Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.
| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1994-2003 | $1650 | |
| 2014 | $2946 | |
| 2013 | $2946 | |
| 2012 | $2946 | |
| 2011 | $2946 | |
| 2010 | $2916 | |
| 2009 | $2916 | |
| 2008 | $2802 | |
| 2007 | $2520 | |
| 2006 | $2520 | |
| 2005 | $2520 | |
| 2004 | $2160 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 1994-2003 | $3606 |
| 2014 | $3762 |
| 2013 | $3756 |
| 2012 | $3756 |
| 2011 | $3756 |
| 2010 | $3750 |
| 2009 | $3618 |
| 2008 | $3618 |
| 2007 | $3618 |
| 2006 | $3618 |
| 2005 | $3618 |
| 2004 | $3618 |
Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links
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