Refraction seismic Jacques JENNY Geo 2 X Genve
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Refraction seismic Jacques JENNY Geo 2 X Genève 1
Seismic refraction principes 2
Applications • • • Oil in 1920 th Geotechnic Water prospecting Mineral research Landslide study Wheathering zone determination (for reflection seismic statics) 3
Unfavourable geological setting with refraction seismic Red ray pathes are always hidden by shorter black rays 4
Record example V 1 V 2 V 3 T i m e Distances 5
Record example Refraction Reflexion Air wave Surface wave 6
Refraction data acquisition For a efficient processing, you need at least: • 2 Offset shots (half spread distance) • 2 End shots • 1 Center shot 7
Example of a complex acquisition with 12 channels Shot points 8
Equipment • • Geophones Seismograph Battery Cables (Blasting box) Radio Portable drill 9
Energy sources • • • Sledge hammer (Easy to use, cheap) Buffalo gun (More energy) Explosives (Much more energy, legal problems) Drop weight (Need a flat area) Vibrator (Uncommun use for refraction) Air gun (For lake / marine prospection) 10
Sledge hammer Produce a good energy with high frequencies, Possible investigation depth 10 -50 m You can add (stack) few shots to improve signal/noise ratio 11
To avoid aerial projection and improve energy, explosives can be burried into a small drilling (1 -1. 5 m) using a portable mechanic drill or a jumper. Explosives To buy and use explosive is often difficult, impossible in some countries. A miner licence is required 12
Processing • Few specific softwares are found to process seismic refraction • Most of them use conventional methods like Intercept Time (IT), ABC, GRM • New inversion softwares can produce tomography interpretation 13
First Break Picking • This is the most important operation, good picking on good data !!!! • A commun problem is the lack of energy, for far offset geophones • Seismographs produce SEG 2, SEGY or special file format, generaly they must be converted to another file format, like Seismic Unix. 14
Picking FBP on good data (Wiggles are clipped) Noise 15
Picking FBP on poor data ? 16
Travel time assembly Offset 1 End Shot 1 Offset 24 Center shot End Shot 24 Steep slope= low velocity gentle slope = high velocity X axis = distance Y axis = time Slope=1/velocity 17
Bedrock velocity Using only offset shots, we can compute the true velocity of the bedrock, even if the bedrock is dipping. If the points are not straight, it means that bedrock is not homogenous (fault, lithological boundary) Save the Velocity as layer 3 velocity 18
Bedrock velocity 19
Phantoming Move offset shot to end shot to determine which part corresponds to bedrock arrivals Intercept time 2 20
Velocity determination Velocity = 1 / slope 21
Seismic velocity of some rocks 22
Rock velocity examples 23
Rock rippability • Rippability (bulldozer) is related with rock velocities. • A refraction profil can be used to determine if explosives use will be necessary instead bulldozer • Refraction survey can also be used to caracterize soils: soft, hard to set excavation rates 24
If you know all velocities and Intercept times, thickness can be computed below all shots, except offset shots Intercept time (IT) method 25
What is an Intercept time Distance = 0 m 26
IT Formula Z 1= thickness layer 1 T 1= intercept 1 V 1=layer 1 velocity V 2=ayer 2 velocity 27
Plus minus Method Principle 28
Plus Minus 1 Total time 29
Plus Minus 2 Depth is computed below all receivers 30
GRM principle • Generalized Reciprocal Method (see PALMER papers) is a variant of the ABC method. It takes in account noncoincidence of the stations used for calculating plus values • GRM requires more receivers than IT or ABC • Different distances are used to compute time to bedrock, geophysicist must select the optimal distance (XY) 31
Generalized Reciprocal Method XY = Optimal distance Red = plus-minus path Blue = plus-minus path 32
GRM 1 XY optimal distance selection 33
GRM 2: Depth with differents XY 34
GRM 3 35
GRM Seismic profil 36
Tomography If you input all geometrical data and first break picks, computer can build a theoretical model as close as possible to field data using different algorithm. A very precise picking and closer shots are required to give 37 accurate results.
Example 1 Tomography on a gallery 38
Example 1 39
Example 2 Landslide in Swiss Alps 40
Example 2 41
FIN END 42
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