Ground-penetrating-radar response to fracture-fluid salinity: Why lower frequencies are favorable for resolving salinity changes

Geophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Tsoflias, Georgios P ^a   Becker, Matthew W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FRACTURE; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

APERTURE FRACTURES; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); HIGHER-FREQUENCY SIGNALS; RESOLUTION CAPABILITY; SIGNAL AMPLITUDE CHANGES; SIGNAL FREQUENCIES;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

AMPLITUDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FRACTURED MEDIUM; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUNDWATER FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROCK; SALINITY; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 53849083105     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2957893     Document Type: Article

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