Seismic imaging to help understand and manage water quality in coastal Benin, West Africa

Kyle Lindsay; John Bradford; Stephen Silliman; Nicaise Yalo; Moussa Boukari

doi:10.1190/SEG-2014-1668.pdf

Seismic imaging to help understand and manage water quality in coastal Benin, West Africa

Kyle Lindsay
, John Bradford
, Stephen Silliman
, Nicaise Yalo
, Moussa Boukari

Geosciences Department

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Abstract

The coastal city of Cotonou in Benin, West Africa relies on the Godomey aquifer for fresh drinking water. Increased pumping of the aquifer to accommodate rapid population growth has led to salt-water intrusion into the aquifer. Better geometrical constraints on the aquifer lithology are needed to bring the current hydrologic model to the stage of a quantitative management tool, in order to mitigate the salt-water intrusion. Shallow seismic reflection produced a detailed map of the Godomey aquifer and showed it to be a complex system of discontinuous and topographically variable strata. Passive surface wave measurements provided surface wave velocity profiles in a noisy urban environment.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and 84th Annual Meeting SEG 2014
Publisher	Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Pages	2245-2249
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	9781634394857
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1190/SEG-2014-1668.pdf
State	Published - 2014
Event	Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and 84th Annual Meeting SEG 2014 - Denver, United States Duration: 26 Oct 2014 → 31 Oct 2014

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Conference	Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and 84th Annual Meeting SEG 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	Denver
Period	26/10/14 → 31/10/14

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Lindsay, K., Bradford, J., Silliman, S., Yalo, N., & Boukari, M. (2014). Seismic imaging to help understand and manage water quality in coastal Benin, West Africa. In Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and 84th Annual Meeting SEG 2014 (pp. 2245-2249). (Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and 84th Annual Meeting SEG 2014). Society of Exploration Geophysicists. https://doi.org/10.1190/SEG-2014-1668.pdf

Lindsay, Kyle ; Bradford, John ; Silliman, Stephen et al. / Seismic imaging to help understand and manage water quality in coastal Benin, West Africa. Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and 84th Annual Meeting SEG 2014. Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2014. pp. 2245-2249 (Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and 84th Annual Meeting SEG 2014).

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Lindsay, K, Bradford, J, Silliman, S, Yalo, N & Boukari, M 2014, Seismic imaging to help understand and manage water quality in coastal Benin, West Africa. in Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and 84th Annual Meeting SEG 2014. Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and 84th Annual Meeting SEG 2014, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, pp. 2245-2249, Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and 84th Annual Meeting SEG 2014, Denver, United States, 26/10/14. https://doi.org/10.1190/SEG-2014-1668.pdf

Seismic imaging to help understand and manage water quality in coastal Benin, West Africa. / Lindsay, Kyle; Bradford, John; Silliman, Stephen et al.
Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and 84th Annual Meeting SEG 2014. Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2014. p. 2245-2249 (Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and 84th Annual Meeting SEG 2014).

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Lindsay K, Bradford J, Silliman S, Yalo N, Boukari M. Seismic imaging to help understand and manage water quality in coastal Benin, West Africa. In Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and 84th Annual Meeting SEG 2014. Society of Exploration Geophysicists. 2014. p. 2245-2249. (Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and 84th Annual Meeting SEG 2014). doi: 10.1190/SEG-2014-1668.pdf

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