Geophysics in popular culture

[99thpercentile]

I keep a database of popular culture references to geophysics. By popular culture I mean: books, magazines, television, movies. Dan Brown's book Deception Point discusses an urealistic GPR results. Popular Mechanics magazine had a one page discussion of tunnel detection last year and did a profile of a geophysicist who is a volcanologist. Television shows such as Bones, Law & Order, The X-Files, Warehouse 13 and CSI have all shown GPR in at least a few episodes The two movies that most people think of are Jurassic Park for the GPR sequence at the beginning and The Core for its abuse of science. I am asking the forum members to let me know of any other examples of geophysics in popular culture. I'm not asking for critique about whether or not the method was used correctly, since they usually aren't. Thank you for any input.

Books-Author, Title, year, page number where geophysics discussed, short description of the geophysical method discussed

Magazines-Author, Title, year, page number, volume, issue number, short description of the geophysical method discussed

Television-Show name, episode number, original air date, time in episode when geophysics is used, short description of the geophysical method discussed

Movies-Title,release year, time in movie when geophysics is used, short description of the geophysical method discussed

[Qiaozhi]

In the German book "Ortungstecknik fur Profis" by Wolfgang Schuler there is a section on GPR (or Bodenradar, in German). It is section 3.6 - starts on page 120 and ends on page 129. The year is 1999, ISBN 3-00-004076-5

http://www.amazon.de/Ortungstechnik-...9&sr=8-1-spell

I can scan in the relevant pages, and send to you in an email if you are interested. I cannot post it here due to copyright restrictions.

[Fred]

A few books here:

http://www.ebookee.com/search.php?q=...adar&sa=Search

[rael]

Another links:

http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/science_books/57354235.html

http://www.ri.cmu.edu/pub_files/pub1...man_1997_1.pdf

[99thpercentile]

Thanks for the replies, but so far most of the replies have been for textbooks. I already have all of the books listed so far from school and work. I am a geophysicist, but I want examples of what non-geophysicists would be exposed to. I'm looking for examples in popular culture, not instruction manuals or textbooks. For example a detective novel that mentions using geophysics for a forensic investigation or a television show that has geophysics in it.

[rael]

Ok. In the Bulgarian literature, forensic investigation is make after using of geophysical devices.

[rael]

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[epitopios]

very interesting : http://www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/archs.../archpros.html

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