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Relationships between Seismic and Hydrological Properties

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Hydrogeophysics

Part of the book series: Water Science and Technology Library ((WSTL,volume 50))

Abstract

Reflection seismology is capable of producing detailed three-dimensional images of the earth’s interior at the resolution of a seismic wavelength. Such images are obtained by filtering and migrating the seismic data and give geometrical information about where in the earth the elastic moduli and mass densities change. However, information about which specific property has changed and by how much is not contained in the images. Hydrologists can use such migrated images to place geometrical constraints on their possible flow models, but must rely on well data to place constraints on the actual values of the hydrological properties.

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    Steven R. Pride

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    Susan S. Hubbard

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Pride, S.R. (2005). Relationships between Seismic and Hydrological Properties. In: Rubin, Y., Hubbard, S.S. (eds) Hydrogeophysics. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 50. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3102-5_9

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