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Submitted July 20, 2022
Published 2022-07-20

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Vol. 24 No. 2 (2022): Tecnociencia

SEISMIC REFRACTION TOMOGRAPHY APPLIED TO HYDROGEOLOGY AT EL RINCÓN DE SANTA MARÍA, PANAMA


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Published: 2022-07-20

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Edward, H., Tapia, A., Cedeño, J., Rodríguez, A., Luque, N., Ballestero, I., Batista Rodríguez, J. A., Almaguer Carmenates, Y., Cedeño, I. and Caballero, A. (2022) “SEISMIC REFRACTION TOMOGRAPHY APPLIED TO HYDROGEOLOGY AT EL RINCÓN DE SANTA MARÍA, PANAMA”, Tecnociencia, 24(2), pp. 34–47. Available at: https://revistas.up.ac.pa/index.php/tecnociencia/article/view/3069 (Accessed: 21 November 2024).

Abstract

The community of El Rincón, in the province of Herrera, uses groundwater as the main source of drinking water supply and for its agro-industrial activities. However, the integral management of the resource leads to the use of geophysical techniques, such as seismic refractive tomography. Technique implemented in this research, with the objective of determining the distribution of the geological strata present in the area and characterize the aquifer in exploitation. For this purpose, seismic profiles were made, used to develop a model of velocities between 350 m/s and 4500 m/s, which, when correlated with the lithological description of the mechanical boreholes of the area (wells), allows inferring the lithology, highlighting two aquifers, the first, is the shallower, granular type (sandstone), while the second, is fissured type (fractured tobaceous agglomerate). Both have different depths and thicknesses. The shallow aquifer is overlain by clays, indicating an aquifer with little chance of contamination.

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