Environmental and Engineering Geophysics
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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.
Environmental and Engineering Geophysics,Prem V. Sharma,Cambridge University Press,0521576326,Engineering - Civil,Engineering geology,Environmental Engineering & Technology,Environmental geotechnology,Geophysics,Science/Mathematics,Technology,Technology & Industrial Arts,Earth Sciences,Science / Geology
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