Date of Award
2018
Document Type
Open Access Master's Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Geophysics (MS)
Administrative Home Department
Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
Advisor 1
Roohollah Askari
Advisor 2
Snehamoy Chatterjee
Committee Member 1
Wayne D. Pennington
Abstract
Fractures significantly control the groundwater flow and solute transport in geological settings of low-permeable rocks. Fractures also affect seismic wave propagation. For instance, they can create a directional dependence of seismic velocity with respect to their orientations, known as seismic anisotropy. Seismic radial anisotropy as used here is the difference between the velocity of a vertically polarized S-wave (SV) and one polarized horizontally (SH). In this thesis, seismic radial anisotropy was used to evaluate its usefulness for correlating with near-surface fractures. The seismic radial anisotropy models were obtained at two sites from dispersion analyses of the Rayleigh waves, with vertical polarization, and Love waves, with horizontal polarization, using the Multichannel Analysis of Surface Waves (MASW) method. The seismic radial anisotropies at these two sites in different geological settings (one metamorphic-igneous bedrock and the other sedimentary), shows a strong correlation of seismic radial anisotropy with near surface fractures, and hence, can be used to characterize near-surface fractures.
Recommended Citation
Jeng, Jer-Yu, "APPLICATION OF SEISMIC RADIAL ANISOTROPY FOR NEAR-SURFACE FRACTURES IDENTIFICATION", Open Access Master's Thesis, Michigan Technological University, 2018.