General Information

Serial #

60175

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

METAL CASING, CONTROL PANEL, CONTROLS & PARTS/ SYNTHETIC DIGITAL INDICATOR, CONTROLS, HANDLE, PARTS/ RUBBER GASKET

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

30.2 cm

Width

24.5 cm

Height

13.1 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Mining and Metallurgy

Category

Mineral exploration

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Minnetech

Country

United States of America

State/Province

Minnesota

City

Minneapolis

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Quebec

Period

1960S+

Canada

ONE OF COLLECTION OF INSTRUMENTS USED BY PROF. M.K. SEGUIN WHILE IN GEOLOGY DEPT. OF U. OF LAVAL, QUEBEC DURING 1960S TO CA. 1990. THEY WERE ACQUIRED BY SEGUIN TO SUPPORT CONTRACT RESEARCH, & AS TEACHING APPARATUS FOR HIS GRAD STUDENTS & TEACHING AIDS FOR UNDERGRAD GEOLOGY STUDENTS AT LAVAL CA.1960-1995.

Function

AN INSTRUMENT USED IN GEOPHYSICAL EXPLORATION TO RECORD VIBRATIONS IN THE GROUND CREATED BY CLOSELY CONTROLLED APPLICATION OF ENERGY SOURCES TO INDUCE SHOCK WAVES. THESE VIBRATIONS OR WAVES ARE MONITORED & ANALYSED TO DETERMINE THE PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EARTH.

Technical

THE SEISMIC METHOD IS AN IMPORTANT & WIDELY USED GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUE, DIFFERENTIATED FROM ACTUAL EARTHQUAKE SEISMOLOGY BY THE USE OF CLOSELY CONTROLLED APPLICATION OF ENERGY SOURCES TO INDUCE SHOCK WAVES. THE APPLIED ENERGY SOURCES PRODUCE SHOCKS VERY SIMILAR TO SEISMIC WAVES WHICH ARE THEN MONITORED & ANALYSED BY MEANS OF A NETWORK OF CABLING & GEOPHONES HOOKED TO A CENTRAL MONITORING STATION WITH SEISMOGRAPHS.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

BLACK LETTERING ON CONTROL PANEL READS "ENGINEERING SEISMOGRAPH/ MODEL MD-3/ GEOPHYSICAL SPECIALTIES/ DIVISION/ MINNETECH LABS, INC., MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA"/ BLACK LETTERING ON CONTROL PANEL FOR CONTROL FUNCTIONS/ PLATE ON EXTERIOR READING "SERIAL NO./ 60175"

Missing

APPEARS COMPLETE From CA of 11/05/2001 by David Daley: No - Complete

Finish

BRUSHED METAL CASING & CONTROL PANEL/ PLATED PARTS/ BLACK, BLUE & RED SYNTHETIC CONTROLS/ COLOURLESS, TRANPARENT INDICATOR WINDOW, BLACK DIAL/ BLACK RUBBER/ GREY HANDLE

Decoration

NONE