Credit Hours - 2

This course focuses on organic carbon geochemistry and its use to solve problems of geological and environmental relevance. The subjects treated include organic carbon in space, the global carbon cycle, chemical composition of biogenic matter, sedimentology of organic matter, organic matter diagenesis, molecular fossils, geopolymers, generation and composition of fossil fuels, environmental organic geochemistry, and carbon stable isotope geochemistry.

Reading List 

• Killops, S.D., & Killops, V. (2005). An Introduction to Organic Geochemistry. Wiley & Sons Incorporated. 
• Lillis, P.G., & Dolan, M.P. (2013). Organic Geochemistry of Oils, from Oil Spring and Florence Oil Field near Canon City, Colorado. USGS Open-File Report 98-617. BiblioBazaar.
• Pratt, L.M., Brasse, S.C., & Comer, J.B. (1992), Geochemistry of Organic Matter in Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks. Society of Sedimentary Petrology, 
• Romankevich, E.A. (2012). Geochemistry of Organic Matter in the Oceans. Springer. 
• Schenck, P.A., Leeuw, J.W., & Lijmbach, G.W. (1985). Organic Geochemistry: Advances in Organic Geochemistry (Vol. 6). Elsevier Science & Technology Books.

Credit Hours - 2

The purpose of this course is to give students an overview of the environmental pollution associated with air, water and solid waste, and methods for prevention, control and management of the pollution. Major categories and sources of air and water pollution; dangers of some air and water pollutants; detecting pollution; control and monitoring of pollution; acid rain and deposition; measurement of air and water pollution; air and water pollutant standards index from EPA and WHO; status of air and water quality in developed and developing countries; groundwater protection; human waste disposal will be discussed.

Reading List 

Barrat, R., & Feates, F.S. (1995), Integrated Pollution Management: Improving Environmental Performance. McGraw Hill Companies.

Eckenfelder, W.W. (1988). McGraw-Hill Series in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering; industrial Water Pollution Control, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 

Farmer, A. (1998). Routledge Environmental Management: Managing Environmental Pollution Routledge

Friedman, F. (2006). Practical Guide to Environmental Management (10th Edition). Environmental Law. 

Nathanson, J.A., & Schneider, R.A. (2014). Basic Environmental Technology: Water Supply, Water Management and Pollution Control. Pearson Education

Credit Hours - 3

This course covers the physics of earthquakes and seismic energy propagation, and seismic methods to determine Earth structure. Lectures cover the following: earthquake seismology; earthquake mechanics; earth structure; instrumentation; interpretation of seismograms; focal mechanisms; faults; paleoseismology; seismotectonics; earthquake locations and magnitudes; earthquake hazard assessment. Laboratory work will focus on the interpretation and analyses of digital earthquake data using digital and analog seismograms, analyses of local earthquake data on a workstation, plotting and interpretation of earthquake record sections, interpretation of paper record seismograms, and spectral analyses of strong ground motion records and probabilistic risk assessment.

Reading list

Dahlen, F.A., & Tromp, J. (1998). Theoretical Global Seismology. Princeton University Press. 

Doyle, H.A. (1996). Seismology. Wiley & Sons Inc. 

Geldart, L.P., & Sheriff, R.E. (1995). Exploration Seismology Cambridge University Press, Shearer, P.M. (1999), Introduction to Seismology, Cambridge University Press.

 Udias, A. (2000). Principles of Seismology. Cambridge University press.

Credit Hours - 2

This course provides an understanding of the broad aspects of minerals as resources, the mineral industry, ore reserve classification and estimation, and project evaluation criteria. The course covers the following: uniqueness of the mining sector investment, mine taxation, ore reserve estimation, valuation, mineral project evaluation and selection criteria, introduction to Ghana's mineral policy, and environmental considerations in mining sector management. 

Reading list: 

• King, F. H., McMahon D. W., & Bujtor, G. .1. (1982). A Guide to the understanding of Ore Reserve Estimation. Australasian lnstitute of Mining and Metallurgy. 
• Moran, K., (1995). Investment Appraisal for Non-Financial Managers. Pitman Publishing, London. 
• Ruuge, L C. (2003).Mineral Economics and Strategy. Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration; Englewood, Colorado, USA. 
• Sabhash, C. R., & Indra N. S. (20 l6). Mine and mineral economics, Prentice Hall, India. 
• Wellmet', F,-W. (1936). Economic Evalualions in Exploration Springer-verlag, Berlin'

Credit Hours - 2

This course provides an overview of how petroleum is generated and how it is found and how wells are drilled to produce it, the conditions in nature required for petroleum formation and trapping, and the role that geologists and geophysicists have in petroleum exploration and production. Areas of emphasis include concepts, terms, and history of petroleum and energy use in Ghana and the world; reservoir rocks and their fluids; drilling and logging of a well; the subsurface environment of sedimentary basins; generation and migration of petroleum; traps and seals; unconventional oil (oil sands, oil shales etc) and gas (shale gas).