In Neryungri, according to the data of the remote inductive sounding method, the correlation relationships of strength at a frequency of 1,125 MHz and the effective values of the electrophysical characteristics of the coal-bearing sedimentary rock layer at a frequency of 0,281 MHz were studied at a depth of 6–18 m. In the space of single values, a high correlation is observed between strength and the average azimuthal specific attenuation of the harmonic field of a vertical magnetic dipole. In the space of background values, which is ordered by microdistricts in Neryungri and is free of random interference, there are additional high and moderate correlations between strength, electrical resistance, dielectric constant, anisotropy coefficient, and anisotropy azimuth. In this chain of regular statistical interdependencies, there is an extensive system of functional cause-and-effect relationships between the strength and electrophysical characteristics of sedimentary rocks at different hierarchical levels. This fact significantly expands the engineering and geological capabilities of the remote inductive sensing method in solving various forecasting and modeling tasks in the direction of assessing the strength of sedimentary rocks based on their electrophysical characteristics or in the opposite direction.

Leonid G. Neradovskii
Doctor of Technical Sciences
Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Engineering Geocryology
Melnikov Permafrost Institute SB RAS
36, Merzlotnaya Str., Yakutsk, 677010, Russia
е-mail: leoner@mpi.ysn.ru
Scopus ID: 57201729984
SPIN-code: 3296-2473
AuthorID: 394470

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