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With deep mining of coal mines, prospecting multilayer water-filled goaf has become a new content that results from geophysical exploration in coalfields. The central loop transient electromagnetic (TEM) method is favorable for prospecting conductive layers because of the coupling relationship between its field structure and formation. However, the shielding effect of conductive overburden would not only require a longer observation time when prospecting the same depth but also weaken the anomalous response of underlying layers. Through direct time domain numerical simulation and horizontal layered earth forward modeling, this paper estimates the length of observation time required to prospect the target, and the distinguishable criterion of multilayer water-filled goaf is presented with observation error according to the effect of noise on observation data. The observed emf curves from Dazigou Coal Mine, Shanxi Province can distinguish multilayer water-filled goaf. In quantitative inversion interpretation of observed curves, using electric logging data as initial parameters restrains the equivalence caused by coal formation thin layers. The deduced three-layer and two-layer water-filled goafs are confirmed by the drilling hole. The result suggests that when observation time is long enough and with the anomalous situation of underlying layers being greater than the observation error, the use of the central loop TEM method to prospect a multilayer water-filled goaf is feasible.
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This work was supported by the National Science Foundation of China (No. 41374129), Science and Technology Project of Shanxi Province (No. 20100321066), Research and Development Project of National Major Scientific Research Equipment (No. ZDYZ2012-1-05-04).
Yan Shu is a professor at the School of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Jiangsu University. Her research interests are electric and electromagnetic exploration, electromagnetic field numerical analysis, and antenna and propagation. Email: yanshu@ujs.edu.cn.
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Yan, S., Xue, GQ., Qiu, WZ. et al. Feasibility of central loop TEM method for prospecting multilayer water-filled goaf. Appl. Geophys. 13, 587–597 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11770-016-0586-5
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