Combined electrical and electromagnetic imaging of hot fluids within fractured rock in rugged Himalayan terrain

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 205-214

  Sudha, Kumari ^a,b   Tezkan, Bülent ^a   Israil, Mohammad ^b   Rai, Jagdish ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

2D 3D effects; Electrical resistance tomography; Sign reversal; Transient electromagnetic

Indexed keywords

2D INVERSION; 2D-3D EFFECTS; COMMON FEATURES; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC IMAGING; FINITE-DIFFERENCE ALGORITHMS; FORWARD MODELING; FRACTURED ROCK; GEOELECTRICAL STRUCTURE; GEOTHERMAL AREAS; GEOTHERMAL POTENTIAL; HOT FLUIDS; HOT WATER; JOINT ANALYSIS; LOCAL FEATURE; LOW RESISTIVITY; MAIN CENTRAL THRUSTS; MULTIDIMENSIONALITY; NEAR-SURFACE; RESISTIVITY STRUCTURE; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SIGN REVERSAL; SPECTRAL LANCZOS DECOMPOSITION METHODS; STUDY AREAS; TRANSIENT ELECTROMAGNETIC; TRANSIENT ELECTROMAGNETICS; VERTICAL EXTENSION; WATER TEMPERATURES;

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTROMAGNETISM; GEOTHERMAL SPRINGS; GROUNDWATER; HOT SPRINGS; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

POWER QUALITY;

ALGORITHM; DATA INVERSION; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FRACTURED MEDIUM; GEOELECTRIC FIELD; IMAGING METHOD; TERRAIN; THERMAL SPRING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

GARHWAL HIMALAYAS; HIMALAYAS; INDIA; MAIN CENTRAL THRUST ZONE; UTTARAKHAND;

EID: 79959748941     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2011.06.002     Document Type: Article

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