Masters Theses
Abstract
"This research project was undertaken to perfect a technique whereby theoretical horizontal resistivity profiles could be reproduced in laboratory tank studies.
Several specimen materials were tried and finally an acceptable specimen material was found. It was found that carbon specimens suspended in salt water would give horizontal resistivity profiles that agree to a remarkable degree with the theoretically predicted curves.
The investigations showed that the depth of burial of the specimen has a marked influence on the position of the characteristic edge effects and on the magnitude of the apparent resistivity.
The studies also indicated that successful tank studies could be carried out using sand as the enclosing media, rather than a salt water media, but with a loss of some of the homogeneity"--Abstract, page ii.
Advisor(s)
Zenor, Hughes M., 1908-2001
Committee Member(s)
McFarland, Charles E.
Clark, George Bromley, 1912-
Christiansen, Carl R., 1921-1997
Department(s)
Mining Engineering
Degree Name
M.S. in Mining Engineering
Publisher
Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy
Publication Date
1961
Pagination
viii, 83 pages
Note about bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 74-75).
Rights
© 1961 Edward E. Hornsey, All rights reserved.
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
File Type
text
Language
English
Subject Headings
Electric prospecting -- Mathematical models
Earth resistance (Geophysics)
Thesis Number
T 1312
Print OCLC #
5933055
Electronic OCLC #
964669266
Link to Catalog Record
Recommended Citation
Hornsey, Edward, "Tank studies of the resistivity horizontal profiling method of electrical prospecting" (1961). Masters Theses. 2780.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/masters_theses/2780
