An overview of geophysical technologies appropriate for characterization and monitoring at fractured-rock sites.

ABSTRACT: Geophysical methods are used increasingly for characterization and monitoring at remediation sites in fractured-rock aquifers. The complex heterogeneity of fractured rock poses enormous challenges to groundwater remediation professionals, and new methods are needed to cost-effectively infer fracture and fracture-zone locations, orientations and properties, and to develop conceptual site models for flow and transport. Despite the potential of geophysical methods to "see" between boreholes, two issues have impeded the adoption of geophysical methods by remediation professionals. First, geophysical results are commonly only indirectly related to the properties of interest (e.g., permeability) to remediation professionals, and qualitative or quantitative interpretation is required to convert g

SUBMITTER: Day-Lewis FD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5894821 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature