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GEOLOGIC QUESTIONS ABOUT:

PERMEABILITY

What is the permeability of the rocks? Which way is the water flowing? Where do I drill my water well? Where are zones of increased water production?

While permeability can be qualitatively interpreted/interpolated with the help of adequate ground-truthing (i.e., correlated to a sandstone bed or shear-zone that can be mapped/tracked using remote sensing), permeability remains the "Holy Grail" of geophysics, and there is currently no known way of directly/quantitatively measuring permeability using remote sensing. Various pump-tests and borehole methods get us closer though:

Geophysical Solutions:

GOOD METHOD: DC Resistivity (M-3)

BEST METHOD: Borehole Methods (M-14)