Name: Hailie Ashley G.

Cañete Student Number: 528995

Unit Learning Outcomes - Week 8-9

ULO 4-A

Let’s Check
Report Topic: Site Investigation
Keywords: Window samples, sinkhole, cavity, drainage, drilling rig, ancient mine
workings, slope stability, ballast, ground penetrating radar, GPR surveying.
Report Topic: Geological Methods
Keywords: surface investigation, aerial surveys, photogeology, hydrogeological surveys,
subsurface investigation, direct subsurface investigation, indirect subsurface
investigation, hydrologic parameters, geologic parameters.

Report Topic: Concepts: Geophysical Methods

Keywords: Geophysics, geodesy, meteorology, oceanography, study of physical properties
and behaviors of the earth, gravity, energy, built structure, electromagnetic, radioactivity,
magnetics.

Report Topic: Seismic and Electrical Methods

Keywords: Geophysicists, Geologists, Exploration Managers, resistivity method,
injection of current into the ground, sound waves, geophone, energy source, ground
penetrating radar

Let’s Analyze
In the space provided, write the term/s being asked in the following statement:
Site investigation 1. It is the process of collection of information in a site.
Geological Investigation 2. Considered as drilling, sampling, mapping and other geological
fieldwork pertaining to the suitability of a site for the proposed engineering works
Seismic Refraction 3. It involves measuring the travel time of the component of seismic
energy which travels down to the top of rock.
Core 4. A cylindrical section of rock, or fragment thereof, taken as a sample of the interval
penetrated by a core barrel and brought to the surface for the examination and for analysis.
hydrogeological survey 5. Is an investigation of the hydrologic and geologic parameters at
the subsurface level in an area.

ULO 4-B
Let’s Check

Report Topic: Standard Penetration Test

Keywords: drilling rig, drop hammer, standard split spoon sampler, guiding rod, driving
head, pulley, rope, quide pipe, anvil, borehole

Report Topic: Geological Conditions for construction of Dams and Tunnels

Keywords: Selection of Sites: Topographically, Selection of Sites: Technically, Selection of
Sites: Economically, Selection of Sites: Environmentally, road cutting, sidehill cut,
through cut, cut and fill, land cut, land fill.

Report Topic: Geological Conditions for construction of Buildings

Keywords: Topographically, Selection of Sites: Technically, Selection of Sites:
Economically, Selection of Sites: Environmentally, road cutting, sidehill cut, through cut,
cut and fill, land cut, land fill.

Report Topic: Road Cutting

Keywords: road cutting, sidehill cut, through cut, cut and fill, land cut, land fill, borehole,
anvil, drilling rig, driving head.