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# Seismic Refraction Summary
Things to think about ...
- Illlustrate how the refraction method and concept of "1st Arrivals" works
- What is a P-wave? What physical parameters affect its speed?
- Why use refraction, can't you just use resistivity?
- Why do we swing the hammer so many times???
- What is critical distance?
- What is crossover distance?
- How deep can a seismic refraction survey see and why?
- Why do we have to hit the hammer from both sides?
- If I have an idea of what the subsurface looks like, what would the seismic refraction data look like?
- What happens if the P-wave velocity of a deeper layer is **less** than the layer above it?
- How thin of a layer can a refraction survey detect?
- What types of subsurface anomalies (compared to relatively simple homogeneous layers) detect, and **not** detect?
- Do refraction surveys match electrical surveys in terms of the layers they detect?
- ... etc ...