Seismic measurements take many forms, and appear to have a universal role in the earth sciences. It is the way we can most easily and economically ‘see’ what lies beneath the earth’s surface. There are huge economic rewards, or losses, to be made when ‘seeing’ more accurately, or less accurately, as the case may be. In this book, examples of seismic measurements are reviewed from numerous fields in civil, mining, petroleum, geophysics, and tectonophysics.
Reviewed behaviour stretches over ten orders of magnitude, from microcrack compliance in laboratory tests of intact or jointed rock samples, to in situ block tests, borehole stability, dam and bridge foundations, quarry blasting, canal excavations, hydropower and transportation tunnels, TBM tunnels, subsea tunnels, rock caverns, nuclear waste repository studies, highly stressed mine openings, subsea sediment studies, and even down to crustal and mid-ocean ridge measurements, where the emphasis is on velocity-depth-age models. In the last chapters there is concentration on deeper, higher stress, larger scale applications of seismic, such as shear-wave splitting for interpreting fracturing and fracture response to production in petroleum reservoirs. There are also reviews of seismic studies at geothermal reservoirs, and of earthquake fault zone interpretation. Attenuation and seismic quality, and the anisotropy of fracture compliances and stiffnesses are key items for improved understanding and prediction. The dispersive or frequency dependence of most seismic measurements, and their dependence on fracture dimensions is also reviewed. This book is strictly cross-discipline in nature. It traces an ever-accelerating path through an important part of the earth sciences, describing seismic behaviour at many scales, and appropriate rock mechanics interpretation, as a means of illuminating and trying to understand what lies beneath the earth’s immediate surface.
The book is intended for students, consultants and university teachers studying and working in the main fields of civil, mining and petroleum engineering, with particular application for geophysicists, engineering geologists and geologists who are entrusted with the interpretation of seismic measurements at rock engineering and petroleum engineering projects. The treatment is deliberately non-mathematical and phenomenological in nature, with a wealth of figures from a wide review of the literature from many earth science fields.
- ISBN13 9780415394451
- Publish Date 1 September 2007
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 730
- Language English