Need some literature on 2D resistivity surveys done on alluvial plains to reconstruct sub-surface stratigraphy or palaeochannel drainage network.
Dear Imran, I work in a thick alluvial plain (the Po plain Italy). It's composed by gravel, sands and clay and the total thick above the marine sediment could be more than 500 metres. My personal experience with 2D resistivity is not good ! No possibility to detect in a correct way the boundary between different lithology and different kind of answer respect presence or not presence of water. So I suggest you to approch another survey methodology !!! Paolo
Thanks dear Palolo Severi for your kind suggestion. Can I get some related literature on it.
Some successful subsurface reconstructions have been done in the Körös basin in eastern Hungary using ERT, in an archaeological context (meaning a focus reconstructing human activity and the late Pleistocene and early-to-mid Holocene environment). The papers below describe a 2D resistivity inversion algorithm for geologically recent sediments and stratigraphy (again, archaeology).
Papadopoulos, N.G., Tsourlos, P., Tsokas, G.N. and Sarris, A. 2006. Two-dimensional and three-dimensional resistivity imaging in archaeological site investigation. Archaeological Prospection 13(3):163-181.
Papadopoulos, N., Sarris, A., Parkinson, W., Gyucha, A. and Yerkes, R. 2013. Electrical Resistivity Tomography as a tool to reconstruct the palaeoenvironment of Neolithic sites. In Archaeological Prospection: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection, edited by Neubauer, W., Trinks, I., Salisbury, R.B. and Einwögerer, C., pp. 390-393. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.
Papadopoulos, N.G., Sarris, A., Parkinson, W.A., Gyucha, A., Yerkes, R.W., Duffy, P.R. and Tsourlos, P. 2014. Electrical Resistivity Tomography for the Modelling of Cultural Deposits and Geomorphological Landscapes at Neolithic Sites: a Case Study from Southeastern Hungary. Archaeological Prospection 21(3):169-183.
If this helps you, the authors are on ResearchGate if you need more info.
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