Seismic reflection methods applied to engineering, environmental, and ground-water problems

DW Steeples, RD Miller - 1st EEGS Symposium on the Application of …, 1988 - earthdoc.org
The seismic-reflection method is a powerful geophysical exploration method that has been
in widespread use in the petroleum industry for more than 60 years. Since 1980, it has been …

High-resolution of shallow-seismic experiments in sand; Part 1, Water table, fluid flow, and saturation

R Bachrach, A Nur - Geophysics, 1998 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A high-resolution, very shallow seismic reflection and refraction experiment was conducted
to investigate the seismic response of groundwater level changes in beach sand in situ. A …

Monitoring water level of a surficial aquifer using distributed acoustic sensing and ballistic surface waves

V Sobolevskaia, J Ajo‐Franklin, F Cheng… - Water Resources …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Groundwater resources play an increasingly crucial role in providing the water required to
sustain the environment. However, our understanding of the state of surficial aquifers and …

Combining sedimentological and geophysical data for high-resolution 3-D map** of fluvial architectural elements in the Quaternary Po plain (Italy)

R Bersezio, M Giudici, M Mele - Sedimentary Geology, 2007 - Elsevier
Current approaches to the reconstruction of the geometry of fluvial sediments of Quaternary
alluvial plains and the characterization of their internal architecture are strongly dependent …

Map** a bedrock surface under dry alluvium with shallow seismic reflections

RD Miller, DW Steeples, M Brannan - Geophysics, 1989 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Shallow seismic-reflection techniques were used to image the bedrock-alluvial interface,
near a chemical evaporation pond in the Texas Panhandle, allowing optimum placement of …

Ground penetrating radar imaging of an aquifer during a pum** test

AL Endres, WP Clement, DL Rudolph - Groundwater, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
We have imaged the temporal and spatial response of an unconfined aquifer during a
pum** test using ground penetrating radar (GPR) profiling. In particular, we have …

Field comparison of shallow seismic sources near Chino, California

RD Miller, SE Pullan, DW Steeples… - Geophysics, 1992 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Data from a shallow seismic-source comparison test conducted in an area with a water-table
depth in excess of 30 m and near-surface velocities less than 330 m/s were acquired from …

Detecting voids in a 0.6 m coal seam, 7 m deep, using seismic reflection

RD Miller, DW Steeples - Geoexploration, 1991 - Elsevier
Surface collapse over abandoned subsurface coal mines is a problem in many parts of the
world. High-resolution P-wave reflection seismology was successfully used to evaluate the …

Electromagnetic induction methods for environmental problems

DV Fitterman, VF Labson - 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Introduction Electromagnetic methods have a special place in the arsenal of geophysical
tools available for environmental investigations. They owe their status to five factors. First …

Shallow seismic methods

DW Steeples - Hydrogeophysics, 2005 - Springer
This chapter covers the fundamentals of near-surface seismic techniques, including
refraction, reflection, borehole, and surface-wave methods. Typical seismic applications to …