Fracture characterization using Earth tide analysis

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 380, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 237-246

  Burbey, Thomas J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquifer hydraulics; Earth tides; Fractured rocks; Specific storage

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION FACTORS; AQUIFER SYSTEMS; BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; BLUE RIDGES; CONFINED AQUIFER SYSTEM; EARTH TIDE; FRACTURE CHARACTERIZATION; FRACTURED ROCK; LOW-FREQUENCY RESPONSE; PRESSURE RESPONSE; SECONDARY POROSITY; SPECIFIC STORAGE; STRESS-STRAIN HYSTERESIS LOOPS; TIDAL PARAMETERS; TIDAL SIGNALS; TIME-DEPENDENT; VIRGINIA; VOLUMETRIC STRAIN; WATER-LEVEL FLUCTUATION;

AMPLIFICATION; AQUIFERS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; FRACTURE; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; HYDRAULICS; HYSTERESIS; HYSTERESIS LOOPS; TIDE GAGES; WATER LEVELS; WATER WELLS;

TIDES;

AMPLIFICATION; BAROMETRY; CONFINED AQUIFER; EARTH TIDE; FRACTURE NETWORK; POROSITY; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; WATER LEVEL; WELL WATER;

FLOYD COUNTY [VIRGINIA]; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 72249116282     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.10.037     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Acworth R.I., and Brain T. Calculation of barometric efficiency in shallow piezometers using water levels, atmospheric and earth tide data. Hydrogeology Journal 16 (2008) 1469-1481
2. Belanger, D.W., Freeze, R.A., Lolcama, J.L., Pickens, J.F., 1988. Interpretation of Hydraulic Testing in Crystalline Rock at the Leuggern Borehole. Nagra Technical Report, NTB 87-19. Nagra, Baden, Switzerland.
3. Berger J., and Beaumont C. An analysis of tidal strain observations for the United States of America. 2. The inhomogeneous tide. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 66 6 (1976) 1821-1846
4. Bower D.R. Bedrock fracture parameters from the interpretation of well tides. Journal of Geophysical Research 88 B6 (1983) 5025-5035
5. Bredehoeft J.D. Response of well-aquifer systems to earth tides. Journal of Geophysical Research 72 12 (1967) 3075-3087
6. Burbey T.J. Stress-strain analysis for aquifer-system characterization. Ground Water 39 1 (2001) 128-136
7. Cooper H.H.J., Bredehoeft J.D., Papadopulos I.S., and Bennett R.R. The response of well-aquifer systems to seismic waves. Journal of Geophysical Research 70 16 (1965) 3915-3926
8. Desbarats A.J., Boyle D.R., Stapinsky M., and Robin M.J.L. A dual-porosity model for water level response to atmospheric loading in wells tapping fractured rock aquifers. Water Resources Research 35 5 (1999) 1495-1505
9. Doan M.-L., Brodsky E.E., Prioul R., and Signer C. Tidal Analysis of Borehole Pressure: A Tutorial (2006), University of California, Santa Cruz
10. Furbish D.J. The response of water level in a well to a time series of atmospheric loading under confined conditions. Water Resources Research 27 4 (1991) 557-568
11. Gentry W.M., and Burbey T.J. Characterization of ground water flow from spring discharge in a crystalline rock environment. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 40 5 (2004) 1205-1217
12. Godin G. The Analysis of Tides (1972), University of Toronto Press, Toronto (264 pp)
13. Green D.H., and Wang H.F. Fluid pressure response to undrained compression in saturated sedimentary rock. Geophysics 51 (1986) 948-956
14. Hanson J.M. Evaluation of subsurface fracture geometry using fluid pressure response to solid Earth tidal strain (1984), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (UCID-20156, 135 pp)
15. Hanson J.M., and Owen L.B. Fracture orientation analysis by the solid earth tidal strain method. 57th Annual Fall Technical Conference and Exhibition of the Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME (1982), American Institute of Mechanical Engineers, New Orleans, LA
16. Harrison J.C. New Computer Programs for the Calculation of Earth Tides (1971), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO
17. Hartmann T., and Wenzel H.-G. The HW95 tidal potential catalog. Geophysical Research Letters 22 24 (1995) 3553-3556
18. Hsieh P.A., Neuman S.P., Stiles G.K., and Simpson E.S. Field determination of three-dimensional hydraulic conductivity tensor of anisotropic media: 2. Methodology and application to fractured rocks. Water Resources Research 21 11 (1985) 1667-1676
19. Hsieh P.A., Bredehoeft J.D., and Farr J.M. Determination of aquifer transmissivity from Earth tide analysis. Water Resources Research 23 10 (1987) 1824-1832
20. Hsieh P.A., Bredehoeft J.D., and Rojstaczer S. Response of well aquifer systems to earth tides: problem revisited. Water Resources Research 24 3 (1988) 468-472
21. Ishiguro, M., Akaike, H., 1980. A Bayesian approach to the trading-day adjustment of monthly data. International Time Series Meeting, Houston, TX, USA.
22. Ishiguro M., and Tamura Y. BAYTAP-G in TIMSAC 84. Computer Science Monographs 22 (1985) 56-117
23. Ishiguro, M., Sato, T., Tamura, Y., Ooe, M., 1984. Tidal data analysis--an introduction to BAYTAP. In: Proceedings of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, vol. 32. pp. 71-85.
24. Jacob C.E. On the flow of water in an elastic artesian aquifer. Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 21 (1940) 574-586
25. Karasaki K., et al. A multidisciplinary fracture rock characterization study at Raymond field site, Raymond, CA. Journal of Hydrology 236 1-2 (2000) 17-34
26. Kuusela-Lahtinen A., Niemi A., and Luukkonen A. Flow dimension as an indicator of hydraulic behavior in site characterization of fractured rocks. Ground Water 41 3 (2005) 333-341
27. Long J.C.S., et al. Rock Fractures and Fluid Flow - Contemporary Understanding and Applications (1996), National Academy Press, Washington, DC 551 pp
28. Long J.C.S., Doughty C., Datta-Gupta A., Hestir K., and Vasco D.W. Component characterization: an approach to fracture hydrogeology. In: Dagan G., and Neuman S. (Eds). Subsurface Flow and Transport: a Stochastic Approach; Proceedings of the 2nd IHP/IAHS George Lovacs Colloq (1997), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (United Kingdom) 79-195
29. Merritt, M.L., 2004. Estimating hydraulic properties of the Floridan aquifer system by analysis of earth-tide, ocean-tide, and barometric effects, US Geological Survey, Collier and Hendry Counties, Florida, (Water Resources Investigations Report 03-4267), 70 pp.
30. Neuman S.P. Trends, prospects and challenges in quantifying flow and transport through fractured rocks. Hydrogeology Journal 13 (2005) 124-147
31. Paillet, F.L., 1994. Application of borehole geophysics in the characterization of flow in fractured rocks. US Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 93-4214, 36 pp.
32. Paillet F.L. Flow modeling and permeability estimation using borehole flow logs in heterogeneous fractured formations. Water Resources Research 34 5 (1998) 997-1010
33. Pavelko, M.T., 2000. Ground-water and aquifer-system-compaction data from the Lorenzi Site, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1994-1999. US Geological Survey Circular Open-File Report 00-362.
34. Riley, F.S., 1969. Analysis of borehole extensometer data from central California. International Association of Hydrologic Sciences, Publication, pp. 423-431. 89
35. Riley F.S. Developments in borehole extensometry. 3rd International Symposium on Land Subsidence. In: Johnson A.I., Carbognin L., and Ubertini L. (Eds). Land Subsidence (1984), International Association of Hydrologic Sciences, Venice, Italy 169-186
36. Rojstaczer S. Determination of fluid flow properties from the response of water levels in wells to atmospheric loading. Water Resources Research 24 11 (1988) 1927-1938
37. Rojstaczer S., and Agnew D.C. The influence of formation material properties on the response of water levels in wells to earth tides and atmospheric loading. Journal of Geophysical Research 94 B9 (1989) 12403-12411
38. Rugh D.F., and Burbey T.J. Using saline tracers to evaluate preferential recharge in fractured rocks, Floyd County, Virginia, USA. Hydrogeology Journal 16 (2008) 251-262
39. Seaton W.J., and Burbey T.J. Aquifer characterization in the Blue Ridge Physiographic Province using resistivity profiling and borehole geophysics: geologic analysis. Journal of Environmental Engineering and Geophysics 5 3 (2000) 45-58
40. Seaton W.J., and Burbey T.J. Influence of ancient thrust faults on the hydrogeology of the Blue Ridge Province. Ground Water 43 3 (2005) 301-313
41. Tamura Y., Sato T., Ooe M., and Ishiguro M. A procedure for tidal analysis with a Bayesian information criterion. Geophysical Journal International 104 (1991) 507-516
42. Tsang C.F., Hufschmied P., and Hale F.V. Determination of fracture inflow parameters with borehole fluid conductivity logging method. Water Resources Research 26 4 (1990) 561-578
43. Wang R. Tidal response of the solid Earth. In: Wilhelm H., Zurn W., and Wenzel H.-G. (Eds). Tidal Phenomena (1997), Springer, Berlin 27-57
44. Wenzel H.-G. Tide-generating potential for the Earth. In: Wilhelm H., Zurn W., and Wenzel H.-G. (Eds). Tidal Phenomena (1997), Springer, Berlin 9-26
45. White B.A., and Burbey T.J. Evidence for structurally controlled recharge in the Blue Ridge Province, Virginia, USA. Hydrogeology Journal 15 (2007) 929-943
46. Williams J.H., and Paillet F.L. Using flowmeter pulse tests to define hydraulic connections in the subsurface. A fractured shale example. Journal of Hydrology 265 (2002) 100-117