Karst aquifers are highly susceptible to contamination, with numerous points of entry for contaminants through recharge features
such as sinkholes, swallow holes and solutionally enlarged fractures. These recharge features may be filled or obscured at
the surface, requiring the use of geophysical or remote sensing techniques for their identification. This study uses seismic
refraction data collected at the Ft. Campbell Army Airfield (CAAF), Kentucky, USA, to test the hypothesis that refraction
tomography is a useful tool for imaging bedrock depressions beneath thick overburden (greater than 20 m of unconsolidated
sediment). Southeast of the main taxiway of CAAF seismic velocity tomograms imaged a bedrock low, possibly a closed depression,
at a depth of 25 m that had been earlier identified through delay-time analysis of the same refraction data. Tomography suggests
the bedrock low is about 250-m wide by 10-m deep at its widest point. High rates of contaminant vapor extraction over the
western extension of this feature suggest a high concentration of contaminants above, and within, this filled bedrock low,
the base of which may contain solutionally enlarged fractures (i.e. karst conduits) that could funnel these contaminants to
the upper or lower bedrock aquifers. This study thus demonstrates the viability of seismic refraction tomography as a tool
for identification of filled sinkholes and bedrock depressions in karst areas. 相似文献
Land subsidence caused by compression of clay layers in Ojiya City, Japan was measured by global positioning system (GPS) between 1 April 1996 and 31 December 1998.
Three baselines were selected in and around the city, and height difference on a WGS-84 ellipsoid was measured by GPS on each baseline. The ground at the GPS station in the city subsides and rebounds 7 cm every winter and spring, respectively. Measurement accuracy was 9.5 mm standard deviation. Ground water level was observed at a well near the GPS station. Regression analysis between total strain, calculated as ratio of the height difference displacement to the total thickness of the clay layers, and the layers' effective stress change with ground water level change gave good correlation. The slope of regression line 7.0×10−11 m2/N was obtained as an average apparent coefficient of volume compressibility of the layers. 相似文献
One of the basic requirements for a scientific use of rain data from raingauges, ground and space radars is data quality control. Rain data could be used more intensively in many fields of activity (meteorology, hydrology, etc.), if the achievable data quality could be improved. This depends on the available data quality delivered by the measuring devices and the data quality enhancement procedures. To get an overview of the existing algorithms a literature review and literature pool have been produced. The diverse algorithms have been evaluated to meet VOLTAIRE objectives and sorted in different groups. To test the chosen algorithms an algorithm pool has been established, where the software is collected. A large part of this work presented here is implemented in the scope of the EU-project VOLTAIRE (Validation of multisensors precipitation fields and numerical modeling in Mediterranean test sites). 相似文献