THE FUNDAMENTAL EQUATIONS OF ELECTRICAL PROSPECTING

Abstract

In the United States the applications of electrical prospecting have been few. Thus it might appear superfluous to discuss exhaustively the method. On the other hand it has been applied quite extensively and successfully in the Eastern Hemisphere, particularly by French geophysicists, under the leadership of Conrad and Marcel Schlumberger. Important theoretical studies have resulted from this use which it is deemed worthwhile to summarize, at least along general lines.