an electronic receiver designed to pick up seismic vibrations transmitted through rock, ice, etc.
Word origin
geo- + -phone
geophone in the Oil and Gas Industry
(dʒiəfoʊn)
Word forms: (regular plural) geophones
noun
(Extractive engineering: Exploration)
A geophone is a device used for getting seismic information.
A seismic velocity survey is the measurement of the time taken by a seismic wavegenerated on the surface to reach a geophone at a particular level in a borehole.
Seismic measurements are made by measuring the travel time of a seismic wave as ittravels from the surface and is refracted back to the surface where it is detectedby geophones.
A geophone is a device used for getting seismic information.
Word buildergeo-The prefix geo- is used in a number of words that relate to the earth.