Ground-penetrating radar as a tool to detect rock heterogeneities (channels, cemented layers and fractures) in the Luxembourg Sandstone Formation (Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg)

Sedimentology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 949-967

  van den Bril, Koen ^a   Gregoire, Colette ^b   Swennen, Rudy ^a   Lambot, Sebastien ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Dept Burgerlijke bouwkunde ^*  (Belgium)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Diagenesis; Fractures; Ground penetrating radar; Modelling; Sandstone architecture

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE ROCK; CEMENTATION; DETECTION METHOD; DIAGENESIS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; FRACTURE; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; MODELING; POROSITY; SANDSTONE; WATER CONTENT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; LUXEMBOURG [BELGIUM]; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34547415071     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2007.00868.x     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Berners, H.P. (1983) A lower Liassic offshore bar environment, contribution to the sedimentology of the Luxemburg Sandstone. Ann. Soc. Géol. Belg., 106, 87-102.
2. Berners, H.P. (1985) Der Einfluss der Siercker Schwelle auf die Faziesverteilungen meso-känozoischer Sedimente im NE des Pariser Beckens: Ein Sedimentationsmodell zum Luxemburger Sandstein (Lias), spezielle Aspekte zur structurellen Änderung der Beckenconfiguration und zum naturräumlichen Potential. PhD Thesis, Rheinisch-Westfälischen Technische Hochschule, Aachen, 321 pp.
3. Bristow, C.S. (1995) Internal geometry of ancient tidal bedforms revealed using ground penetrating radar. In: Tidal Signatures in Modern and Ancient Sediments (Eds B.W. Flemming and A. Bartholomä), Int. Assoc. Sedimentol. Spec. Publ., 24, 313-328.
4. Bristow, C.S. and Jol, H.L. (2003) An introduction to ground penetrating radar (GPR) in sediments. In: Ground Penetrating Radar in Sediments (Eds C.S. Bristow and H.M. Jol), Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ., 211, 1-7.
5. Bristow, C.S., Chroston, P.N. and Bailey, S.D. (2000) The structure and development of foredunes on a locally prograding coast: Insights from ground-penetrating radar surveys, Norfolk, UK. Sedimentology, 47, 923-944.
6. van Dam, R.L. and Schlager, W. (2000) Identifying causes of ground-penetrating radar reflections using time-domain reflectometry and sedimentological analyses. Sedimentology, 47, 435-449.
7. van Dam, R.L., Schlager, W., Dekkers, M.J. and Huisman, J.A. (2002a) Iron oxides as a cause of GPR reflections. Geophysics, 67, 536-545.
8. van Dam, R.L., van den Berg, E.H., van Heteren, S., Kasse, C., Kenter, J.A.M. and Groen, K. (2002b) Influence of organic matter in soils on radar-wave reflection: Sedimentological implications. J. Sed. Res., 72, 341-352.
9. van Dam, R.L., van den Berg, E.H., Schaap, M.G., Broekema, L.H. and Schlager, W. (2003) Radar reflections from sedimentary structures in the vadose zone. In: Ground Penetrating Radar in Sediments (Eds C.S. Bristow and H.M. Jol), Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ., 211, 257-273.
10. Daniels, D.J. (1996) Surface-penetrating radar. Electron. Commun. Eng. J., 8, 165-182.
11. Flügel, E. (2004) Microfacies of Carbonate Rocks: Analysis, Interpretation and Application. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 976 pp.
12. Giannopoulos, A. (2002) GPRMAX2D/3D User's guide, http://www.gprmax.org.
13. Grasmueck, M. (1996) 3-D ground penetrating radar applied to fracture imaging in gneiss. Geophysics, 61, 1050-1064.
14. Grasmueck, M., Weger, R. and Horstmeyer, H. (2004) Three-dimensional ground-penetrating radar imaging of sedimentary structures, fractures, and archaeological features at submeter resolution. Geology, 32, 933-936.
15. Grégoire C. and Hollender F. (2004) Discontinuity characterization by the inversion of the spectral content of ground penetrating radar (GPR) reflections -application of the Jonscher model. Geophysics, 69, 1414-1424.
16. Grégoire, C., Halleux, L. and Lukas, V. (2003) GPR capabilities for the detection and characterisation of open fractures in a salt mine. Near Surf. Geophys., 1, 139-147.
17. Guéguen, Y. and Palciauskas, V. (1994) Introduction to the Physics of Rocks. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 294 pp.
18. Guerin-Franiatte, S., Hary, A. and Muller, A. (1991) La formation des Grès du Luxembourg, au Lias inférieur: Reconstitution dynamique du paléoenvironnement. Bull. Soc. Géol. Fr., 162, 763-773.
19. Jol, H.L. and Bristow, C.S. (2003) GPR in sediments: Advise on data collection, basic processing and interpretation, a good practise guide. In: Ground Penetrating Radar in Sediments (Eds C.S. Bristow and H.L. Jol), Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ., 211, 9-27.
20. Lambot, S., Slob, E.C., van den Bosch, I., Stockbroeckx, B. and Vanclooster, M. (2004) Modeling of ground-penetrating radar for accurate characterization of subsurface electric properties. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 42, 2555-2568.
21. Lambot, S., van den Bosch, I., Stockbroeckx, B., Druyts, P., Vanclooster, M. and Slob, E.C. (2005) Frequency dependence of the soil electromagnetic properties derived from ground-penetrating radar signal inversion. Subsurf. Sens. Technol. Appl., 6, 73-87.
22. Lambot, S., Antoine, M., Vanclooster, M. and Slob, E.C. (2006a) Effect of soil roughness on the inversion of off-ground monostatic GPR signal for non-invasive quantification of soil properties. Water Resour. Res., 42, W03403, doi:10.1029/2005WR004416.
23. Lambot, S., Weihermüller, L., Huisman, J.A., Vereecken, H., Vanclooster, M. and Slob, E.C. (2006b) Analysis of air-launched ground-penetrating radar techniques to measure the soil surface water content. Water Resour. Res., 42, W11402, doi: 10.1029/2005WR004535.
24. Lee, K., Zeng, X.X., McMechan, G.A., Howell, C.D., Bhattacharya, J.P., Marcy, F. and Olariu, C. (2005) A ground-penetrating radar survey of a delta-front reservoir analog in the Wall Creek Member, Frontier Formation, Wyoming. AAPG Bull., 89, 1139-1155.
25. Møller, I. and Anthony, D. (2003) A GPR study of sedimentary structures within a transgressive coastal barrier along the Danish North Sea coast. In: Ground Penetrating Radar in Sediments (Eds C.S. Bristow and H.L. Jol), Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ., 211, 55-65.
26. McMechan, G.A., Gaynor, G.C. and Szerbiak, R.B. (1997) Use of ground-penetrating radar for 3-D sedimentological characterization of clastic reservoir analogs. Geophysics, 62, 786-796.
27. Mertens, G., Spies, E.-D. and Teyssen, T. (1983) The Luxembourg Sandstone Formation (Lias), a tide-controlled deltaic deposit. Ann. Soc. Géol. Belg., 106, 103-109.
28. 3 cementation mechanisms: An example from the Lower Jurassic Luxembourg Sandstone, Luxembourg. In: Carbonate Cementation in Sandstones (Ed. S. Morad), Int. Assoc. Sedimentol. Spec. Publ., 26, 193-211.
29. Müller, M., Mohnke, O., Schmalholz, J. and Yaramanci, U. (2003) Moisture assessment with small-scale geophysics -the Interurban project. Near Surf. Geophys., 1, 173-181.
30. Neal, A. (2004) Ground-penetrating radar and its use in sedimentology: principles, problems and progress. Earth Sci. Rev., 66, 261-330.
31. Neal, A., Richards, J. and Pye, K. (2002) Structure and development of shell cheniers in Essex, southeast England, investigated using high-frequency ground-penetrating radar. Mar. Geol., 185, 435-469.
32. Pipan, M., Forte, E., Guangyou, F. and Finetti, I. (2003) High-resolution GPR imaging and joint characterisation in limestones. Near Surf. Geophys., 1, 39-55.
33. Reiss, S., Reicherter, K.R. and Reuther, C.-D. (2003) Visualization and characterization of active normal fault and associated sediments by high resolution GPR. In: Ground Penetrating Radar in Sediments (Eds C.S. Bristow and H.M. Jol), Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ., 211, 247-255.
34. Roberts, M.C., Niller, H.-P. and Helmstetter, N. (2003) Sedimentary architecture and radar facies of a fan delta, Cypress Creek, West Vancouver, British Columbia. In: Ground Penetrating Radar in Sediments (Eds C.S. Bristow and H.L. Jol), Geol. Soc. London Spec. Publ., 211, 111-126.
35. Robinson, D.A. (2004) Calculation of the dielectric properties of temperate and tropical soil minerals from ion polarizabilities using the Clausius-Mosotti equation. Soil J. Soil Sci. Soc. Am., 68, 1780-1785.
36. Sandmeier, K.J. (2005) Software Reflexw. http://www.sandmeier-geo.de/
37. Szerbiak, R.B., McMechan, G.A., Corbeanu, R., Forster, C. and Snelgrove, S.H. (2001) 3-D characterization of a clastic reservoir analog: From 3-D GPR data to a 3-D fluid permeability model. Geophysics, 66, 1026-1037.
38. Walderhaug, O. and Bjørkum, P.A. (1998) Calcite cement in shallow marine sandstones: Growth mechanisms and geometry. In: Carbonate Cementation in Sandstones (Ed. S. Morad), Int. Assoc. Sedimentol. Spec. Publ., 26, 179-192.
39. West, L.J., Handley, K., Huang, Y. and Pokar, M. (2003) Radar frequency dielectric dispersion in sandstone: Implications for determination of moisture and clay content. Water Resour. Res., 39, 1026.