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Application of electrical resistivity tomography for geotechnical assessment near the Vistula flood protection infrastructure Cover

Application of electrical resistivity tomography for geotechnical assessment near the Vistula flood protection infrastructure

Open Access
|Jul 2026

Figures & Tables

Fig. 1.

Location map of the ERT profiles near the Vistula flood protection infrastructure (own research)

Fig. 2.

Inverted resistivity sections: a) Profile 1a, Location 1 (gradient xl); b) Profile 1b, Location 1 (dipole-dipole); c) Profile 2, Location 2 (gradient xl) (own research)

Fig. 3.

Geotechnical borehole profiles No. M54-20 (1982) and No. M54-24 (1962) from the study area (own research)

Subsurface layers interpreted from the ERT results (own research)

LayerThicknessResistivity [Ωm]Interpreted lithology
Iseveral metres185–700unsaturated, loose sands with variable grain size, fine sand, and silty sand
II~10 m10–185saturated sands, partly with clay and silt
III> 10 m< 10saturated alluvial muds (silty clays with organics), plastic

ERT survey parameters for the three profiles (own research)

ParameterProfile 1aProfile 1bProfile 2
Location112
ProtocolGradient xlDipole-dipoleGradient xl
Profile length [m]120120120
Prospection depth [m]24–26~3024–26
RMS misfit [%]< 5~15< 5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17512/bozpe.2026.15.06 | Journal eISSN: 2544-963X | Journal ISSN: 2299-8535
Language: English
Published on: Jul 12, 2026
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2026 Aleksander Rajkowski, Łukasz Kaczmarek, Yunteng Wang, Aigerim Buranbayeva, Paweł Popielski, Jiaxin Liu, Wei Wu, published by Technical University in Czestochowa
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