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Experience with a Water Detector in the Study of the Permafrost Structure

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The results of a study of the geoelectric section of the upper layers of the Earth at observation sites in Yakutia via vertical electrical sounding and surface impedance are presented. Testing of the ADMT-200S water detector, which is based on the principles of the audio magnetotelluric sounding method, showed a qualitative coincidence of the distribution of electrical resistance with depth and a quantitative coincidence of the position of the lower boundary of frozen, unconsolidated sediments with sufficient accuracy for practice. It is proposed that this device be used when the structure of the underlying medium is studied with a combination other geophysical methods.

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Melchinov, V.P., Pavlov, A.A. Experience with a Water Detector in the Study of the Permafrost Structure. Geomagn. Aeron. 62, 271–277 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793222030100

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