The Application of Geophysical Methods in Groundwater Pollution Detection

Abstract:

Groundwater refers to the subsurface water that occurs beneath the water table in geological formation that are fully saturated. 95% of the water used for human production and living comes from groundwater. But now, the pollution degree of groundwater resources is serious, which is a serious threat to human. In order to capture groundwater pollution's situation, groundwater pollution detection should be carried out. Because of the geophysical methods are of low cost, high speed and the characteristics of in-situ nondestructive, people often used geophysical methods for groundwater pollution detection. Geophysical prospecting contains a lot of methods, and the researchers often use resistivity sounding method, ground penetrating radar method, high density resistivity method and seismic reflection method to detect the pollution condition of groundwater.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 644-650)
• Pages: 1209-1212
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.644-650.1209
• Online since: September 2014
• Authors: Xuan Zhang, Jin Yang*
• Keywords: Geophysical Methods, Ground Penetrating Radar, Groundwater Pollution, High Density Resistivity, Landfill Leachate Pollution, Organic Compounds Pollution, Resistivity Sounding, Sea Water Intrusion, Seismic Reflection

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