UNLV Engineering Geophysics Laboratory

Cave Detection


Seismic surface waves can provide a useful tool for cavity detection.  In the summer of 1998, seismic surface wave measurements were performed over Slate Lakes Cave in Coconino National Forest, Arizona.

 

Bob Buecher from Tucson brought the cave radio which we use to align arrays and determine depths.
We worked with Dale Green of Salt Lake City who performed electrical resistivity & magnetometer studies.
Mike Doe used a seismograph on loan from Northern Arizona University.
The entrance to the cave is a collapse feature.

This work was sponsored by the National Speleological Society and the National Science Foundation.


Links to related sites
National Speleological Society