Geological Hazard Investigation Geophysical Technology Manual

Author: Guo Jianqiang
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Publish Date: 2003-11-01
Features: This Manual focuses on eight types of—collapse (hazardous rocks), landslide, debris flow, ground subsidence, ground fissure, ground settlement, seawater intrusion, and embankment leakage—providing concise definitions, classifications, characteristics, and major geological issues in their exploration. Additionally, it categorizes various methods such as DC resistivity, electromagnetic methods, elastic wave methods, layer imaging, logging, radioactivity, and others, listing the specific geological problems each method can address, its application conditions, and technical and economic features in tabular form. Reference tables for selecting geophysical methods are also provided based on preliminary, detailed, and specialized exploration stages. For ease of reference and utilization, the Manual includes several typical geophysical exploration case studies and briefly introduces the fundamental principles, observation methods, technical requirements, data acquisition and processing methods, result presentation forms, interpretation principles, and commonly used instruments for the involved geophysical methods. This book is suitable for engineering geology and geophysical technicians engaged in geological hazard exploration, as well as researchers, management personnel, and as a reference for faculty and students in universities and colleges.