SI-C Experimente in Rock Laboratory | MontTerri

Seismic vibration source operating in the Swiss Folded Jura, approximately 250 m on top of the Mont Terri rock laboratory.
Seismic vibration source operating in the Swiss Folded Jura, approximately 250 m on top of the Mont Terri rock laboratory. (Photo: S. Lüth)
Seismic wave-field acquisition in the Mont Terri rock laboratory, using the underground seismic data acquisition system of the 3D-USLAB (S. 4.2).
Seismic wave-field acquisition in the Mont Terri rock laboratory, using the underground seismic data acquisition system of the 3D-USLAB (S. 4.2). (Photo: S. Lüth)

The Helmholtz Association, represented by the centres GFZ, UFZ, FZJ, HZDR, and KIT, is a partner of the Mont Terri Project. Within this project, 22 partners from 10 nations perform experiments in the Mont Terri rock laboratory, situated in a network of tunnels and galleries in the Opalinus Clay, made accessible by the safety gallery of a motorway tunnel in the Swiss Jura. The SI-C experiment aims at the seismic imaging of the geological structure of the Mont Terri anticline with particular focus on the region between the surface and the depth level of the rock laboratory and the tunnel. We combine seismic source and receiver deployment on the surface and additional seismic acquisition in the underground for a 3D tomographic imaging of the subsurface in the presence of challenging surface topography and underground infrastructure.

Time Frame

  • 2024 - 2027

Funding

  • BMBF

Principal Investigators

Personnell

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