Techniques, analysis, and noise in a Salt Lake Valley 4D gravity experiment
Geophysics
By: P. Gettings, David S. Chapman, and R. Allis
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Abstract
Repeated high-precision gravity measurements using an automated gravimeter and analysis of time series of 1-Hz samples allowed gravity measurements to be made with an accuracy of 5 ??Gal or better. Nonlinear instrument drift was removed using a new empirical staircase function built from multiple station loops. The new technique was developed between March 1999 and September 2000 in a pilot study conducted in the southern Salt Lake Valley along an east-west profile of eight stations from the Wasatch Mountains to the Jordan River. Gravity changes at eight profile stations were referenced to a set of five stations in the northern Salt Lake Valley, which showed residual signals of <10 ??Gal in amplitude, assuming a reference station near the Great Salt Lake to be stable. Referenced changes showed maximum amplitudes of -40 through +40 ??Gal at profile stations, with minima in summer 1999, maxima in winter 1999-2000, and some decrease through summer 2000. Gravity signals were likely a composite of production-induced changes monitored by well-water levels, elevation changes, precipitation-induced vadose-zone changes, and local irrigation effects for which magnitudes were estimated quantitatively. ?? 2008 Society of Exploration Geophysicists. All rights reserved.
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Gettings, P., Chapman, D.S., Allis, R., 2008, Techniques, analysis, and noise in a Salt Lake Valley 4D gravity experiment: Geophysics, v. 73, no. 6, https://doi.org/10.1190/1.2996303.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Techniques, analysis, and noise in a Salt Lake Valley 4D gravity experiment |
| Series title | Geophysics |
| DOI | 10.1190/1.2996303 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Year Published | 2008 |
| Language | English |
| Larger Work Type | Article |
| Larger Work Subtype | Journal Article |
| Larger Work Title | Geophysics |