Exploration Services develops and uses several techniques to provide information about the subsurface, working to come up with less expensive, less invasive methods of providing images of the underground. This includes innovative methods of high resolution shallow seismic reflection. The section also provides drilling in support of water, petroleum, and basic subsurface research. An active program in the maintenance and rehabilitation of wells drilled by the Kansas Geological Survey is also part of this section.
This section also runs a program designed to monitor changes and identify regional trends in the High Plains, Dakota, and alluvial aquifers. The Water Well Project annually measures about 1,380 wells in 47 central and western Kansas counties.
In addition, as part of their work, this section has developed WinSeis and SurfSeis software for processing data generated by seismic reflection and for monitoring wells in Kansas.
New Online
- KGS Open-file Report 2006-1
- Delineating Subsurface Features with the MASW Method at Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, Alabama, by Jianghai Xia
- KGS Open-file Report 2006-23
- Time-Lapse High-Resolution Seismic Imaging of a Catastrophic Salt-Dissolution Sinkhole in Central Kansas, by Jamie L. Lambrecht
- KGS Open-file Report 2006-24
- Decomposition Results of Multi-impact Source Sequence Records, by Julian Ivanov and Richard D. Miller
- KGS Open-file Rept. 2005-32
- Technical Progress Report, Year 2, and Plan for Year 3: 4-D High-Resolution Seismic Reflection Monitoring of Miscible CO Injected into a Carbonate Reservoir by Richard D. Miller, Abdelmoneam E. Raef, Alan P. Byrnes, and William E. Harrison
- KGS Open-file Rept. 2005-24
- Time-lapse Seismic Monitoring of Enhanced Oil Recovery CO2-flood in a Thin Carbonate Reservoir, Hall-Gurney Field, Kansas, U.S.A. by Abdelmoneam E. Raef, Richard D. Miller, Alan P. Byrnes, William E. Harrison, and Evan K. Franseen