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Geoscience Letters

Official Journal of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)

Table 1 Resistivity of various types of water (Saad et al. 2012)

From: Groundwater aquifer detection using the electrical resistivity method at Ito Campus, Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan)

Type of water

Resistivity in Ω m

Meteoric water

30–1000

Surface water in areas of sedimentary rock

10–100

Groundwater in areas of igneous rock

30–150

Seawater

\(\approx\) 0.20

Groundwater in areas of sedimentary rock

> 1

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