Conveners: Uli Harms and Rudi Giese
Session language: English

Topic:
Exploring the geological underground at depth is a rapidly developing critical tool in Earth sciences. Boreholes, mines, and tunnels are increasingly surveyed and utilized as underground laboratories for experiments at natural conditions. Subsurface measurements and monitoring in boreholes or tunnels are the only means to observe processes directly and acquire quasi in situ properties of rocks and fluids. Furthermore, subsurface data bridge the divide between rock physics on samples and geophysical measurements from surface, serve to understand this scale effect, and facilitate calibration of data gained at ground level.

Contributions from various fields in Earth science are invited to bring forward new results and novel methods of geophysical and geological underground investigations acquired in drill holes and tunnels.