Induction logging device with a pair of mutually perpendicular bucking coils

Patent · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:863873

Koelle, Alfred R ^[1]; Landt, Jeremy A ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos, NM

An instrument is disclosed for mapping vertical conductive fractures in a resistive bedrock, magnetically inducing eddy currents by a pair of vertically oriented, mutually perpendicular, coplanar coils. The eddy currents drive magnetic fields which are picked up by a second, similar pair of coils.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Assignee: United States of America as represented by United States (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): US 4264862
• OSTI ID: 863873
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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