Installation of a borehole meter (IMAGE)

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung

Installation of a borehole meter

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Installation of a strainmeter for a GONAF borehole in Turkey. Complementary to classical seismometers, these devices can also measure slow deformations in the subsurface down to the dimension of an atomic diameter (10 to the power of -10 m).

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Marco Bohnhoff, GFZ

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