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Volume 35 Number 7
  • E-ISSN: 1365-2478

Abstract

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Three‐component seismic and geoelectrical in‐mine surveys were carried out in Lyukobanya colliery near Miskolc, Hungary to determine the in situ petrophysical parameter distributions and to detect inhomogeneities in the coal seam. The seismic measurements comprise an underground vertical seismic profile, using body waves, and an in‐seam seismic amplitude‐depth distribution and transmission survey, using channel waves. The geoelectrical measurements are based on the drift‐ and seam‐sounding method.

Interval traveltime‐, amplitude‐, multiple‐filter‐ and polarization analysis methods are applied to the seismic data. They lead to a five‐layer model for the strata including the coal seam. The coal seam and two underlying beds act as a seismic waveguide. The layer sequence supports the propagation of both normal and leaky mode channel waves of the Love‐ and Rayleigh type. A calculation of the total reflected energy for each interface using Knott's energy coefficients shows that the velocity ranges of high reflection energy and of normal and leaky mode wavegroups coincide. The excitation of wavegroups strongly depends on the seismic source. A simultaneous inversion of a geoelectrical drift‐ and seam‐sounding survey prevents misinterpretations of the seismic data by clearly identifying the low‐velocity coal seam as a high‐resistivity bed. Calculations of dispersion and sounding curves improve the resolution of the slowness and resistivity in each layer.

Both diminished amplitudes and distortions in the polarization of transmission seismo‐grams and decreasing resistivities in a geoelectrical pseudosection of the coal seam are related to an inhomogeneity.

A calculation of synthetic seismograms for Love and Rayleigh channel waves with the finite‐difference and the Alekseev‐Mikhailenko method agrees well with the field data for the main features, i.e., particular arrivals in the wave train, wavegroups, velocities and symmetries or asymmetries.

This in‐mine experiment demonstrates that the simultaneous acquisition, processing and interpretation of seismic and geoelectrical data improve the lithological interpretation of petrophysical parameter distributions. Coal seam inhomogeneities can also be detected more reliably by the two independent surveys than by one alone.

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