Covers the fundamentals of all currently used methods (seismic, electrical, electromagnetic, gravity, magnetic, borehole logging and remote sensing) and pays special attention to the seismic refraction and electrical resistivity techniques which are the ones most commonly used in engineering and groundwater geophysics. The main changes in this new edition of Applied Geophysics for Engineers and Geologists, apart from a general updating, and conversion to SI units, is a more extensive treatment of electromagnetic and induced polarisation methods, and of geophysical borehole logging. The seismic reflection method is also treated more fully in view of its great importance in petroleum prospecting. Problems, with answers are also included. Taken together, the changes are so great that this is virtually a new book, as is suggested by the change in title
Inhalt
(partial) Introduction: units
The seismic method
Seismic surveys and their interpretation
Theory of electrical resistivity surveying
Practice and applications in resistivity surveying
Other electrical methods
Gravity surveying
Magnetic surveying
Geophysical borehole logging
Radiometric surveys and remote sensing
Bibliography
Problems
Index