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A rural town needs a new source of water, and you are asked to map the water table. Your goal is to detect the interface between a dry and saturated sand. What would be the optimal seismic refraction experiment? a. Dynamite source to generate strong ground roll b. An air-gun to generate P-waves c. Sledge hammer striking a plate vertically to generate P-waves d. Sledge hammer striking a plate horizontally to generate S-waves

A rural town needs a new source of water, and you are asked to map the water table. Your goal is to detect the interface between a dry and saturated sand. What would be the optimal seismic refraction experiment? a. Dynamite source to generate strong ground roll b. An air-gun to generate P-waves c. Sledge hammer striking a plate vertically to generate P-waves d. Sledge hammer striking a plate horizontally to generate S-waves

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A rural town needs a new source of water, and you are asked to map the water table. Your goal is to detect the interface between a dry and saturated sand. What would be the optimal seismic refraction experiment?
a. Dynamite source to generate strong ground roll
b. An air-gun to generate P-waves
c. Sledge hammer striking a plate vertically to generate P-waves
d. Sledge hammer striking a plate horizontally to generate S-waves

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