The Application of High Resolution Shear Wave Seismic Reflection Surveying to Hydrogeological and Geotechnical Investigations

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Clark ◽  
William J. Johnson ◽  
William A. Milled
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Shear Wave ◽  
Seismic Reflection ◽  
Geotechnical Investigations

scholarly journals High-resolution shear-wave seismic reflection as a tool to image near-surface subrosion structures – a case study in Bad Frankenhausen, Germany

Solid Earth ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 1491-1508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja H. Wadas ◽  
Ulrich Polom ◽  
Charlotte M. Krawczyk
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Shear Wave ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Seismic Reflection ◽  
Seismic Velocities ◽  
Horizontal Shear ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Seismic Sections ◽  
The Church

Abstract. Subrosion is the subsurface leaching of soluble rocks that results in the formation of depression and collapse structures. This global phenomenon is a geohazard in urban areas. To study near-surface subrosion structures, four shear-wave seismic reflection profiles, with a total length of ca. 332 m, were carried out around the famous leaning church tower of Bad Frankenhausen in northern Thuringia, Germany, which shows an inclination of 4.93° from the vertical. Most of the geological underground of Thuringia is characterized by soluble Permian deposits, and the Kyffhäuser Southern Margin Fault is assumed to be a main pathway for water to leach the evaporite. The seismic profiles were acquired with the horizontal micro-vibrator ELVIS, developed at Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics (LIAG), and a 72 m long landstreamer equipped with 72 horizontal geophones. The high-resolution seismic sections show subrosion-induced structures to a depth of ca. 100 m and reveal five features associated with the leaching of Permian deposits: (1) lateral and vertical varying reflection patterns caused by strongly heterogeneous strata, (2) discontinuous reflectors, small offsets, and faults, which show the underground is heavily fractured, (3) formation of depression structures in the near-surface, (4) diffractions in the unmigrated seismic sections that indicate increased scattering of the seismic waves, and (5) varying seismic velocities and low-velocity zones that are presumably caused by fractures and upward-migrating cavities. A previously undiscovered southward-dipping listric normal fault was also found, to the north of the church. It probably serves as a pathway for water to leach the Permian formations below the church and causes the tilting of the church tower. This case study shows the potential of horizontal shear-wave seismic reflection to image near-surface subrosion structures in an urban environment with a horizontal resolution of less than 1 m in the uppermost 10–15 m.

Shear-wave high-resolution seismic reflection in Ottawa and Quebec City, Canada

2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 250-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
André J.-M. Pugin ◽  
Susan E. Pullan ◽  
James A. Hunter
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Shear Wave ◽  
Seismic Reflection ◽  
Quebec City

High-Resolution Seismic-Reflection and Marine Magnetic Data Along the Hosgri Fault Zone, Central California

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray W. Sliter ◽  
Peter J. Triezenberg ◽  
Patrick E. Hart ◽  
Janet T. Watt ◽  
Samuel Y. Johnson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Fault Zone ◽  
Seismic Reflection ◽  
Magnetic Data ◽  
Central California
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