Interpretation of Data from Electrical Resistivity Geophysical Surveys

Electrical resistivity surveys of anthropogenic karst phenomena, southeastern New Mexico

A small but significant number of sinkholes and other karst phenomena in southeastern New Mexico are of human origin and are often associated with solution mining of salt beds in the shallow subsurface. In 2008 two brine wells in a sparsely populated area of northern Eddy County, New Mexico, abruptly collapsed as a result of solution mining operations. The well operators had been injecting fres...

Inversion of Electrical Resistivity Data: A Review

High density electrical prospecting has been widely used in groundwater investigation, civil engineering and environmental survey. For efficient inversion, the forward modeling routine, sensitivity calculation, and inversion algorithm must be efficient. This paper attempts to provide a brief summary of the past and ongoing developments of the method. It includes reviews of the procedures used f...

DC resistivity surveys

Using the same colour scheme as the flow diagram above, Figure 2 shows how this conceptual framework applies for DC methods. The energy source is a pair of electrodes that inject a well-known current into the ground at known locations (Fig. 2a). The earth affects this energy because variations in the electrical conductivity of subsurface structures will bend the current flow lines (Fig. 2b). Th...

Theory and Application of Joint Interpretation of Multimethod Geophysical Data

This work is devoted to the theory of joint interpretation of multimethod geophysical data and its application to the solution of real geophysical inverse problems. The targets of such joint interpretation can be geological bodies with an established dependence between various physical properties that cause anomalies in several geophysical fields (geophysical multiresponse). The establishing of...

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