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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001193125-19-156676
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DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20190524

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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			GEOSPACE TECHNOLOGIES CORP
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001001115
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	MEASURING & CONTROLLING DEVICES, NEC [3829]
		IRS NUMBER:				760447780
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			TX
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0930

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		SD
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-13601
		FILM NUMBER:		19853188

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		7007 PINEMONT DR.
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77040
		BUSINESS PHONE:		7139864444

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		7007 PINEMONT DR.
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77040

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	OYO GEOSPACE CORP
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19950919
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<P STYLE="line-height:3.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:4pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>UNITED STATES </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549 </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center>
<P STYLE="line-height:6.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>FORM SD
</B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Specialized Disclosure Report </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center>
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TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) </B></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><B><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">001-13601</FONT></B></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><B><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">76-0447780</FONT></B></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(State or other jurisdiction of</B></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(Commission File</B></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>7007 Pinemont Drive</B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Houston, Texas</B></P></TD>
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</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Thomas T. McEntire, </B></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(Name and telephone number, including area code, of the person to contact in connection with this report) </B></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Check the appropriate box to indicate the rule pursuant to which this form is being filed, and provide the period to which the information in this form
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left">Rule <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">13p-1</FONT> under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">240.13p-1)</FONT> for the reporting period from January&nbsp;1 to December&nbsp;31, 2018. </P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Introduction </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Geospace Technologies Corporation
(&#147;Geospace,&#148; or the &#147;Company&#148;, &#147;we&#148; or &#147;us&#148;, and other similar words) presents this Form SD Specialized Disclosure Report (&#147;Form SD&#148;) to comply with Rule <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">13p-1</FONT>
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the &#147;Rule&#148;) for the reporting year ended on December&nbsp;31, 2018. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Rule was adopted by the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;SEC&#148;) to implement reporting and disclosure requirements related to conflict minerals as directed by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. &#147;Conflict
minerals&#148; is defined by the SEC as columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite, gold, wolframite, or their derivatives, which are limited to tantalum, tin, and tungsten. The Rule imposes certain reporting obligations on SEC registrants whose
products contain conflict minerals that are necessary to the functionality or production of their products, excepting conflict minerals that, prior to January&nbsp;31, 2013, were located &#147;outside of the supply chain&#148; (as defined in the
Rule). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Company Overview </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Geospace
principally designs and manufactures seismic instruments and equipment.&nbsp;We primarily market our seismic products to the oil and gas industry to locate, characterize and monitor hydrocarbon producing reservoirs.&nbsp;We also market our seismic
products to other industries for vibration monitoring, border and perimeter security and various geotechnical applications.&nbsp;We design and manufacture other products of a non-seismic nature, including water meter products, imaging equipment and
offshore cables. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Geospace&#146;s oil and gas products include wireless seismic data acquisition systems, reservoir characterization
products and services, and traditional seismic exploration products such as geophones, hydrophones, leader wire, connectors, cables, marine streamer retrieval and steering devices and various other seismic products. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Geospace&#146;s adjacent market products include water meter products, imaging equipment, offshore cables and seismic sensors used for
vibration monitoring and geotechnical applications. Included in the Company&#146;s imaging equipment products are electronic pre-press products that employ direct thermal imaging and digital inkjet printing technologies targeted at the commercial
graphics, industrial graphics, textile and flexographic printing industries. The Company&#146;s emerging markets products are used for perimeter security, including a detection system used for border and perimeter security surveillance, cross-border
tunneling detection and other products targeted at movement monitoring, intrusion detection and situational awareness. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Item&nbsp;1.01 Conflict
Minerals Disclosure and Report </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Company manufactures products for which conflict minerals are necessary
to the functionality or production. Consequently, for those conflict minerals, Geospace has conducted, in good faith, a reasonable country of origin inquiry (&#147;RCOI&#148;) that was reasonably designed to determine whether those conflict minerals
originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country (&#147;Covered Countries&#148;), or are from a scrap or recycled source (as defined in Item 1.01(c)(6) of Form SD). Because Geospace also purchases <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">pre-manufactured</FONT> assemblies for integration into the products it manufactures, its RCOI was also directed toward suppliers of those assemblies. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Conflict Minerals Disclosure </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Company conducted a multi-step RCOI for the 2018 calendar year. First, the Company compiled a list of all
suppliers that provided <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">pre-manufactured</FONT> assemblies or raw materials. The Company then requested that each of those suppliers complete a Conflict Mineral Reporting Template (&#147;CMRT&#148;) developed by the
Responsible Minerals Initiative (&#147;RMI&#148;). In the CMRT, suppliers were prompted to disclose whether their assemblies contain conflict minerals and, if so, the name of the smelter used to process the conflict minerals. Approximately 100% of
suppliers provided a response. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">For those supplier responses that indicated that their assemblies contain conflict minerals, not all
suppliers had known smelters at the time of reporting or 100% reporting from their supply chain. For those suppliers that had known smelters and refiners, the Company then compared the smelters and refiners identified in those responses to the list
of smelters that are complaint with the Conflict-Free Smelter Program audit protocols, as determined by RMI, which is published on RMI&#146;s website. All smelters that were indicated as being located in the Covered Countries and which were
indicated as having been used by the Company&#146;s suppliers are included on RMI&#146;s list of compliant smelters. Based on this information, Geospace has determined that it does not have reason to believe that any of its necessary conflict
minerals may have originated in a Covered Country. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The information disclosed in this Form SD and the Company&#146;s Conflict Minerals
Policy may be found on the Company&#146;s website at <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">http://www.geospace.com/investor-relations/code-of-business-conduct.</FONT></FONT><B> </B> </P>
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