Experience is key

Karst feature confirmed by drilling
GPR profile of karst feature
confirmed by drilling

Locate, identify & evaluate

  • Abandoned mine workings
  • Borrow areas
  • Concrete slab thickness &
    reinforcement
  • Corrosion potential
  • Depth to bedrock
  • Landslides
  • Lava tubes
  • Leaks in earthen dams, clay & 
    HDPE liners, and buried
    water mains.
  • Liquefaction potential (Shear
    Modulus and Poisson's Ratio)
  • Near vertical, clay-filled fractures
  • Offshore geohazards (slumps,
    steep slopes, pressurized gas)
  • Permafrost
  • Rock ripping potential
  • Seepage from earthen structures
  • Sinkholes
  • Slurry walls
  • Soil layering
  • Vibration monitoring (blasting,
    deep dynamic compaction)
  • Voids beneath concrete slabs
  • Water depths

  • GPR profile across a
    reinforced concrete slab with a
    1 GHz antenna.


    Sinkhole evaluation
    using a L&R Model G 
    Gravimeter with
    Aliod100 Upgrade

Engineering Geophysics
The effectiveness of a geophysical method can be influenced by site conditions. Experience, therefore, is key to getting the most out of a geophysical survey.


Electrical resistivity profile of top of rock and karst conditions

Quantum Geophysics uses CADD to quickly and easily superimpose geophysical drawings, for example contour maps and profiles, onto client basemaps so that the findings can be evaluated with respect to known conditions.

Bouguer gravity contour map of a
proposed detention basin showing a
linear karst feature confirmed by drilling

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SP contour map showing leak in 36"
buried water mains

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