Application of travel-time seismic tomography for archaeological studies of building foundations and basements

The applicability of the travel-time seismic tomography algorithm with the adaptive environment parameterization for the engineering and archaeological studies is investigated. The investigation object is the environment under the ruins of the St. Onuphrius Church at the Big Solovetsky Island. Exper...

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Published inSeismic instruments Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 185 - 195
Main Authors Fokin, I. V., Basakina, I. M., Kapustyan, N. K., Tikhotskii, S. A., Schur, D. Yu
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Heidelberg Allerton Press, Inc 01.04.2012
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Archaeology
Basements
Churches
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Earthquake construction
Earthquake design
Geophysics/Geodesy
Parametrization
Seismic engineering
Seismic phenomena
Seismology
Tomography
Travel time
Russia
travel-time seismic tomography
archaeological studies
and engineering seismology
Solovetsky Islands
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Summary:The applicability of the travel-time seismic tomography algorithm with the adaptive environment parameterization for the engineering and archaeological studies is investigated. The investigation object is the environment under the ruins of the St. Onuphrius Church at the Big Solovetsky Island. Experimental geometry for the tomography studies is designed and the data are acquired and processed. The goal is to study in detail the church basement and underlying geological environment structure that can not be recovered with other geophysical methods. The synthetic experiments are performed using the standard checkerboard tests with the cells of 2, 3, and 4 m in size in order to estimate the adequacy of the results obtained. The recovered three-dimensional velocity pattern is in a good agreement with the data on the church and archaeological information.
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ISSN:0747-9239
1934-7871
DOI:10.3103/S074792391202003X