Resistivity and Induced Polarization

Abstract

Resistivity and induced polarization methods are used for a wide range of near-surface applications, including hydrogeology, civil engineering and archaeology, as well as emerging applications in the agricultural and plant sciences. This comprehensive reference text covers both theory and practice of resistivity and induced polarization methods, demonstrating how to measure, model and interpret data in both the laboratory and the field. Marking the 100 year anniversary of the seminal work of Conrad Schlumberger (1920), the book covers historical development of electrical geophysics, electrical properties of geological materials, instrumentation, acquisition and modelling, and includes case studies that capture applications to societally relevant problems. The book is also supported by a full suite of forward and inverse modelling tools, allowing the reader to apply the techniques to a wide range of applications using digital datasets provided online. This is a valuable reference for graduate students, researchers and practitioners interested in near-surface geophysics.

A linked geomorphological and geophysical modelling methodology applied to an active landslide

“…The ALERT system was set up to record multichannel dipoledipole measurements (Binley and Slater 2020), for both in-line and cross-line (equatorial) configurations. Raw measurements are in the form of transfer resistances (TR): the ratio of a difference in voltage between two electrodes and the current injected in the other two electrodes of a specific four electrode configuration.…”

“…5 Comparison of displacement grids using the piecewise planar (Uhlemann et al 2015) and Spline approaches. Red dots indicate markers used to interpolate movements and are representative of the movements observed at Hollin Hill more robust results (Tso et al 2017), therefore for each ERI step a unique reciprocal error model is computed based on multi-bin analysis (Binley and Slater 2020;Mwakanyamale et al 2012). The average resistance of both the forward and reciprocal measurement is taken into the inversion, and the absolute reciprocal error is defined as…”

Brief communication: Combining borehole temperature, borehole piezometer and cross-borehole electrical resistivity tomography measurements to investigate changes in ice-rich mountain permafrost

“…The inverse modelling is based on Occam's principle. It is performed to minimize an objective function, which quantifies the misfit between the observed dataset and the predictions made by the model (Binley and Slater 2020). The two presented datasets were inverted independently.…”

“…Cross-borehole ERT overcomes this limitation by using at least two vertical boreholes for electrode locations (Binley, 2015). Until present, the method has primarily focused on groundwater research, especially on the 35 remediation of contaminated groundwater (Binley and Slater, 2020) or to determine substrate characteristics, but has never been applied in mountain permafrost environments. Time domain reflectometry (TDR) measurements in the active layer of mountain permafrost (Rist and Phillips, 2005) revealed how water contents vary on a daily and seasonal basis in frozen talus slopes.…”

Electrical resistivity tomographic detection of the hidden Thakek fault, Northeast Thailand

“…Several case studies by the authors (Arjwech et al, 2013;Everett, 2015, 2019) present the successful use of the electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) method to identify subsurface bulk resistivity contrasts. A full description of the two-dimensional (2D) ERT method can be found in Binley and Kemna (2005), Loke (2019) and Binley and Slater (2020). The 2D ERT method can provide geophysical results that are useful in fault-zone investigations.…”