Environmental and engineering geophysics

by Sharma, P. Vallabh

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Title Statements

Full title :Environmental and engineering geophysics / Prem V. Sharma.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1997.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, U.K
Language:eng
Publication Date:1997.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 475 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781139171168, 113917116X
oclc:ocn817913203
LC Classification:TA705
Dewey Decimal:624.1/51

Subjects

Angewandte Geophysik Engineering geology Environmental geotechnology Geofisica aplicada Géologie appliquée Geophysik Géophysique Geotechnical Engineering Géotechnique de l'environnement Ingenieurgeologie Umweltgeophysik