A Radar Investigation of Fracture in a Granite Outcrop

A. F. Siggins

doi:10.1071/EG990105

ISSN: 0812-3985
E-ISSN: 1834-7533

A Radar Investigation of Fracture in a Granite Outcrop
Authors A. F. Siggins^a
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^a CSIRO Division of Geomechanics, P.O. Box 54, Mt Waverley, Vic., 3149, Australia
Publisher: Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Source: Exploration Geophysics, Volume 21, Issue 1-2, Mar 1990, p. 105 - 110
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/EG990105
- Received: 01 Feb 1988
- Published online: 01 Mar 1990

Abstract

Ground probing radar surveys can be used to image subsurface fractures in granite where weathering has contributed to the formation of oxides on the fracture surfaces. Similarly, with the use of conductive salt solutions as the fracturing medium, radar images of artificial cracks created during hydraulic fracturing can be obtained.

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Cook, J. C. (1975). ‘Radar transparencies of mine and tunnel rocks.’ Geophysics 40, 865-885.
Enever, J. R., and Wooltorton, B. (1981). ‘Experience with hydraulic fracturing as a means of estimating in-situ stresses in Australian coal basin sediments.’ Proceedings of Symposium on Hydraulic Stress Measurements, Monterey. National Academy Press.
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Article Type: Research Article

Keyword(s): granite fractures; Ground probing radar; hydraulic fracturing

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