Induced Polarization: A Geophysical Method for Locating Cultural Metallic Refuse

Abstract

The problem of delineating cultural refuse sites (dumps) arises in civil engineering studies. Induced polarization measurements have been successfully applied in several cases. Laboratory tests on synthetic samples indicate that the effect is due to the metal content of the dumps. The method may be applicable to archeological investigations.

Time-domain IP and Resistivity Sections Measured at Four Landfills with Different Contents

“…A part of it is probably due to metal content (e.g. Angoran et al, 1974, Slater et al, 2006 but there are some indications that the presence of biodegradable organic matter also is significant (see Carlson et al, 2009). This paper describes and compares the results of resistivity and IP measurements at four landfills with different contents, which are all situated within a 2 km radius in Helsingborg in Southern Sweden.…”

Detecting Hydrothermal Pyritic Zones along Bald Eagle Ridge Using Induced Polarization

“…IP is also sensitive to other sulfide minerals, graphite, magnetite (e.g., Sumner, 1976), and cultural features such as buried landfills (Angoran et al, 1974). However, the most ubiquitous cause of chargeability anomalies in the near surface is clay.…”

Induced Polarization with Electromagnetic Coupling: 3D Spectral Imaging Theory, EMSP Project No. 73836

“…Although there were references to logging applications in this period in the U.S.S.R. (Dakhnov et al, 1952(Dakhnov et al, , 1959, IP logging applications did not receive widespread serious considerations until later (Hoyer and Rumble, 1976;Snyder et al, 1977;Vinegar et al, 1985). Subsequent applications were to environmental problems (Angoran, 1974;Olhoeft and King, 1991;Morgan et al, 1999;Slater and Lesmes, 2002;Briggs et al, 2003Briggs et al, , 2004.…”

“…al, 1968). In the 1970s IP was used for the first time for investigation of municipal waste (Angoran, et al, 1974). In the 1980s there was increasing public concern that many of the ground water reserves in the US were contaminated and that remedial action was needed.…”

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