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Technology transfer opportunities: patent licenses: portable seismic exploration probe

Members of the Engineering Geology and Ground Water Branches, U.S. Geological Survey
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A new seismic source generator has been invented at the U. S. Geological Survey. Using kinetic energy stored by a flywheel, the truck-mounted source transfers this energy, by impulses, into the ground. Both longitudinal (P) and shear (S) waves can be generated, the latter in 12 directions, without moving the vehicle.

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Members of the Engineering Geology and Ground Water Branches, U.S. Geological Survey. 1996. Technology transfer opportunities: patent licenses: portable seismic exploration probe. https://doi.org/10.3133/fs15096

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