La tomografía eléctrica: una herramienta para la detección de huecos mineros (concesión de Arrayanes, Linares-Jaén)

Electrical resistivity tomography is well suited to find and map subsurface cavities because of its ability to detect resistive features and discriminating subtle resistivity variations. The Linares area (Jaén, Spain), where an important mining activity on metallic sulphides ores was developed, has...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Martínez López, Julián, Rey Arrans, Javier, Sandoval, S., Rodríguez, M.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Huelva (UHU)
Repositorio:Arias Montano. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ariasmontano.uhu.es:10272/8420
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10272/8420
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Electrical resistivity tomography
Conductive-resistive anomalies
Mining voids
Linares
Arrayanes
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Sumario:Electrical resistivity tomography is well suited to find and map subsurface cavities because of its ability to detect resistive features and discriminating subtle resistivity variations. The Linares area (Jaén, Spain), where an important mining activity on metallic sulphides ores was developed, has been selected for this study. This activity has produced a large volume of mining voids. Electrical resistivity tomography is a geophysical tool well suited to the detection and mapping of known and unknown mining voids. The technique is capable of discriminating between the developing cavities, where the target is primarily conductive weathered material, and the empty voids comprising resistive air-filled cavities. Such cavities may be water-filled, in which case they are likely to yield conductive anomalies as the water would be significantly more conductive than the surrounding material (unweathered granite in this case). The survey results suggest that electrical resistivity tomography is an ideal geophysical tool to aid in the detection and monitoring of mining voids and other subsurface cavities