Increasingly traditional geophysical technologies have found new and innovative uses at hazardous waste sites. Geophysical technologies have been used for decades in other industries, principally the petroleum and mining industries, for their ability to describe geological structures deep within the earth’s crust. This proven track record that has been easily transferred to the characterization of hazardous waste sites. In fact, geophysical technologies, such as ground penetrating radar, electromagnetometry, and magnetometry, have been in wide use already at hazardous waste sites to locate buried drums and structures that often constitute source areas.
The use of geophysical technologies is rapidly expanding to other applications in hazardous site characterization, including the direct detection of aqueous and nonaqueous phase contamination. In several of the investigations discussed in this volume, geophysical technologies were able to detect the presence of contaminants.
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