applications

Question 1

EMI applications

Answer 1

-ground water resistivity
-water quality (e.g., salinity & dissolved contaminants).

• lithologies/soil textures
• clay content, consolidation, mineral content and rock type
• Buried objects and voids

Question 2

GPR

Answer 2

• porosity and lithology (reflection analysis)

Relatively small buried/embedded objects (diffraction analysis)

Question 3

gravity

Answer 3

• major crustal features
• plate boundaries, continental margins, crustal thickness
• sedimentary basins
• salt diapirs and potential ore bodies, respectively
• small voids
• karst features or abandon mine shafts
• bedrock topography
• buried valleys.

Question 4

Magnetism

Answer 4

• abandoned oil and gas wells
• metallic mineral deposits
  -archeological
• brownfield sites

Question 5

Refraction

Answer 5

• Crustal thickness/structure
• near surface
• mapping layers / interfaces

Question 6

reflection

Answer 6

• hydrocarbon resevoirs
• aquifer systems
• abandoned mines
• landfill sites
• glaciers