Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-15-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-15-2021
Research article
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12 Jan 2021
Research article |  | 12 Jan 2021

Monitoring surface deformation of deep salt mining in Vauvert (France), combining InSAR and leveling data for multi-source inversion

Séverine Liora Furst, Samuel Doucet, Philippe Vernant, Cédric Champollion, and Jean-Louis Carme

Data sets

RESIF-RENAG French national Geodetic Network, 115 RESIF – Réseau Sismologique et géodésique Français RESIF https://doi.org/10.15778/resif.rg

Model code and software

gmt GenericMappingTools https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/gmt/releases/tag/6.1.1

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Short summary
We develop a two-step methodology combining multiple surface deformation measurements above a salt extraction site (Vauvert, France) in order to overcome the difference in resolution and accuracy. Using this 3-D velocity field, we develop a model to determine the kinematics of the salt layer. The model shows a collapse of the salt layer beneath the exploitation. It also identifies a salt flow from the deepest and most external part of the salt layer towards the center of the exploitation.