TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sharma,P.Vallabh
TI  - Environmental and engineering geophysics
SN  - 9781139171168 (ebook)
AV  - TA705 .S515 1997
U1  - 624.1/51 21
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Engineering geology
KW  - Environmental geotechnology
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
N2  - Geophysical imaging methods provide solutions to a wide range 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 artefacts. 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. A final chapter is devoted to inversion theory and tomography. Each chapter is supported by a large number of richly illustrated case histories. This book will prove to be a valuable course-book for advanced 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139171168
ER  -