Environmental and Engineering Geophysics / Edition 1

by Prem V. Sharma

Overview

Geophysical imaging methods provide solutions to a wide variety of environmental and engineering problems: protection of soil and groundwater from contamination; disposal of chemical and nuclear waste; geotechnical site testing; landslide and ground subsidence hazard detection; location of archaeological artifacts. This book comprehensively describes the theory, data acquisition and interpretation of all of the principal techniques of geophysical surveying: gravity, magnetic, seismic, self-potential, resistivity, induced polarization, electromagnetic, ground-probing radar, radioactivity, geothermal, and geophysical borehole logging. Each chapter is supported by a large number of richly illustrated case histories. This book will prove to be a valuable textbook for senior undergraduates and postgraduates in environmental and applied geophysics, a supplementary course book for students of geology, engineering geophysics, civil and mining engineering, and a reference work for professional earth scientists, engineers and town planners.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521576321
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/20/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	500
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.69(h) x 1.06(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introductory observations; 2. Gravity surveying; 3. Magnetic surveying; 4. Seismic surveys; 5. Self-potential surveying; 6. Resistivity and induced polarization surveys; 7. Electromagnetic surveys; 8. Ground-probing radar; 9. Radioactivity surveys; 10. Geothermal surveying; 11. Geophysical borehole logging; 12. Inversion theory and tomography; Appendix A. Analytical continuation of potential fields; Appendix B. Gravity and magnetic attraction of finite vertical or horizontal cylinder; Appendix C. Magnetic anomaly of a right rectangular prism with an arbitrary direction of magnetization vector; Appendix D. Poynting vector resistivity and the Bostick inversion; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"The author has produced a text that introduces a well-balanced discussion and interesting case studies. The text should remain relevant and useful for some time to come." Pageoph

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