F. Alahverdi Maygooni; M. Mohamadi Vizheh; A.R. Farrokhnia; E. Boostan; H. Nazari
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Undoubtedly, one of the evidence of tectonic activity in each region is earthquake, which has a major role in casualties and financial losses. The earthquake is usually caused by faults that sometimes extend to the depths of the earth's crust. In cases where no signs or complications of these faults ...
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Undoubtedly, one of the evidence of tectonic activity in each region is earthquake, which has a major role in casualties and financial losses. The earthquake is usually caused by faults that sometimes extend to the depths of the earth's crust. In cases where no signs or complications of these faults are observed on the surface of the earth, it is necessary to get a better understanding of these faults and its sub branches by combining geological knowledge as well as remote sensing and geophysical instruments. The Kazar fault in the study area is a fundamental fault that has been attributed to at least six historical earthquake events. Due to quaternary activities, recognition of this fault is very important in the region. Therefore, geological and geophysical studies were carried out on the historical site of Gohartepeh in Behshahr city to reveal its hidden parts. Specific resistive methods with bipolar bipolar arrangement at 10 and 20 meters intervals are used to provide sections and maps. By examining them and considering the position and depth of the anomalies obtained in the next stages, new profiles and networks were designed. In order to obtain more accurate results, the cesium magneto metric scanning was performed on 4 profiles. Data obtained from field operations and data acquisition as well as final processing of data in specialized software have been incorporated and clearly interpreted from sub-surface structures, especially faults and discontinuities in the study area, which indicate an impressive anomalous adaptation obtained with field evidence.
M. Mohamadi Vizheh; A. Kamkar Rouhani
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Ground water, cavities, and isolate buried structures embedded at shallow depths are well detectable by resistivity and GPR methods because of distinct contrast in their electric and electromagnetic properties in comparison with their surrounding media. In this research work, 3 different profiles on ...
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Ground water, cavities, and isolate buried structures embedded at shallow depths are well detectable by resistivity and GPR methods because of distinct contrast in their electric and electromagnetic properties in comparison with their surrounding media. In this research work, 3 different profiles on such targets have been chosen, and their responses have been investigated. Using both resistivity and GPR methods together, it has also been possible to investigate capabilities and limitations of the methods in practice. The results obtained from this research work indicate that the GPR method, in addition to its speed and simplicity in data acquisition, is very successful in detection of interfaces or boundaries between different media in which electromagnetic properties at the boundaries change rapidly. The resistivity surveys, which have been carried out using Wenner array in this study, indicate low resistivity of the media under investigation. The low resistivity of the subsurface media caused the depth of penetration of the GPR method to be low, and as a result, made it impossible to investigate the targets buried at depths greater than 2 meters. Unlike the GPR method, the resistivity method has not been very successful in detection of multiple targets with high resistivity contrasts. Lower resolution of the resistivity method in comparison with GPR method has caused this problem. In this study, considerable information has been obtained by selecting two different processing algorithms and applying them on a series of raw GPR dataset. The obtained information from the resistivities of the subsurface structures as a result of the resistivity surveys has made it possible to choose and apply these processing algorithms. This research work well indicates that high conductive areas in resistivity sections coincide with the areas in the GPR sections having intensive attenuation. This characteristic can be used well in the interpretation of the GPR sections. Finally the resistivity method can be introduced as a suitable supplementary geophysical method to the GPR method.