The self-potential method
Subtitle: theory and applications in environmental geosciences
By: André Revil, Colorado School of Mines, Abderrahim Jardani, University of Rouen
Contributors: Jardani, Abderrahim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9781107019270
Subjects: Self-potential method (Prospecting); Prospecting; Geophysical methods; SCIENCE / Geophysics
Description: "The self-potential method is a simple yet innovative process, enabling non-intrusive assessment and imaging of disturbances in electrical currents of conductive subsurface materials, by measuring the electrical response at the ground's surface or in boreholes. It has an increasing number of applications, from mapping fluid flow in the subsurface of the Earth, to understanding the plumbing systems of geothermal fields, and detecting preferential flow paths in earth dams and embankments"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-366) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Foreword; Preface; 1. Fundamentals of the self-potential method; 2. Development of a fundamental theory; 3. Laboratory investigations; 4. Forward and inverse modeling; 5. Applications to geohazards; 6. Application to water resources; 7. Application to hydrothermal systems; 8. Seismoelectric coupling; Appendix A: a simple model of the Stern layer; Appendix B: the U-P formulation of poroelasticity; References; Index.