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Geophysical applications of electrokinetic conversion
A. H. Thompson, G. A. Gist (1993). Geophysics 58 . DOI: 10.1190/1.1436931.
Literature guide
Seismoelectric Literature and Publication Guide
A curated bibliography of scholarly work on seismoelectric and electroseismic theory, measurement, processing, inversion, and applications, with direct links to lawful publication records and repositories.
Prepared for GeoVue Research Team
Annotated bibliography and publication-access guide · Prepared 11 August 2026
Abstract
This guide brings together the principal scholarly literature relevant to electrokinetic seismoelectric and electroseismic research. The publications are organized by research theme so that readers can move from foundational theory through laboratory and field evidence to processing, inversion, layered-media modeling, saturation effects, and applied studies.
Each bibliographic entry provides a direct DOI, publisher, institutional repository, or thesis-record link where available. The links are designed to take the reader to the original publication record for access, purchase, or repository availability.
Keywords: seismoelectric, electroseismic, electrokinetic coupling, streaming potential, poroelasticity, hydrogeophysics, bibliography.
Contents
- Applications and reservoir studies
- Foundations and electrokinetics
- Field and observational studies
- Unsaturated and multiphase media
- Earthquake and coseismic modeling
- Processing and inversion
- Interfaces and layered media
- Broader seismo-electromagnetics
- Laboratory and borehole studies
- Coupled theory and numerical methods
- Reviews and tutorials
Applications and reservoir studies
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Field tests of electroseismic hydrocarbon detection
A. H. Thompson et al. (2007). Geophysics 72(1), N1-N9 . DOI: 10.1190/1.2399458.
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Numerical simulation of seismoelectric effect for monitoring foam propagation through a reservoir
U. Djuraev, S. R. Jufar, H. Mahardika, P. C. Ooi (2018). Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 171, 618-635 . DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2018.07.069.
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Numerical modeling of passive electroseismic surveying
F. I. Zyserman, L. B. Monachesi, A. H. Thompson, L. Jouniaux, P. Gauzellino, T. d'Biassi (2022). Geophysical Journal International . DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggac127.
Foundations and electrokinetics
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The electroseismic effect
S. T. Martner, N. R. Sparks (1959). Geophysics 24 . DOI: 10.1190/1.1438585.
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Use of second-order electroseismic effects in electric prospecting
N. N. Neyshtadt (1962). International Geology Review 4(4), 435-441 . DOI: 10.1080/00206816209473697.
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Seismoelectric effects of electrokinetic origin
K. E. Butler (1996). Ph.D. thesis, University of British Columbia .
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Characteristics of near-surface electrokinetic coupling
D. Beamish (1999). Geophysical Journal International 137, 231-242 . DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246x.1999.00785.x.
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Electrokinetics in Earth Sciences: a tutorial
L. Jouniaux, T. Ishido (2012). International Journal of Geophysics . DOI: 10.1155/2012/286107.
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Predicting the frequency-dependent effective excess charge density: a new up-scaling approach for seismoelectric modeling
D. Jougnot, S. G. Solazzi (2021). Geophysics 86 . DOI: 10.1190/geo2020-0524.1.
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Study of the seismoelectric effect in saturated porous media using a bundle of capillary tubes model
Y. Zhao, X. Sun, Z. Nie (2023). Electronics 12, 379 . DOI: 10.3390/electronics12020379.
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Rock classification according to seismo-electric and electrokinetic effect occurrence
V. Yu. Hallbauer-Zadorozhnaya (2024). Earth Sciences and Subsoil Use 47(3), 262-279 . DOI: 10.21285/2686-9993-2024-47-3-262-279.
Field and observational studies
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Field measurement of the electroseismic response
L. T. Long, P. K. Rivers (1975). Geophysics 40 . DOI: 10.1190/1.1440521.
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Electroseismic characterization of lithology and fluid type in the shallow subsurface: final report
M. W. Haartsen, O. V. Mikhailov, J. H. Queen, M. N. Toksoz, Z. Zhu (1997). U.S. Department of Energy report DOE/ER/14322-4 . DOI: 10.2172/615659.
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Electroseismic investigation of the shallow subsurface: field measurements and numerical modeling
O. V. Mikhailov, M. W. Haartsen, M. N. Toksoz (1997). Geophysics 62 . DOI: 10.1190/1.1444150.
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Development of experimental methods in electroseismics
S. S. Haines, A. Guitton, B. Biondi, S. R. Pride (2003). SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2003 . DOI: 10.1190/1.1817987.
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Active seismoelectric exploration of glaciers
B. Kulessa, T. Murray, D. Rippin (2006). Geophysical Research Letters 33, L07503 . DOI: 10.1029/2006GL025758.
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Polarisation and slowness of seismoelectric signals: a case study
M. Strahser et al. (2007). Near Surface Geophysics . DOI: 10.3997/1873-0604.2006022.
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Seismoelectric imaging of shallow targets
S. S. Haines, S. R. Pride, S. L. Klemperer, B. Biondi (2007). Geophysics 72(2), G9-G20 . DOI: 10.1190/1.2428267.
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On experimental observations of seismoelectric effect at gas condensate deposit in Earth's electromagnetic and seismic noises
G. Ya. Shaidurov, V. S. Potylitsyn, D. S. Kudinov, O. A. Maikov (2018). International Journal of GEOMATE 15(52) . DOI: 10.21660/2018.52.50636.
Unsaturated and multiphase media
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Dependence of seismoelectric amplitudes on water content
M. Strahser, L. Jouniaux, P. Sailhac, P.-D. Matthey, M. Zillmer (2011). Geophysical Journal International 187, 1378-1392 . DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05232.x.
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Coupled hydromechanical and electromagnetic disturbances in unsaturated porous materials
A. Revil, H. Mahardika (2013). Water Resources Research 49, 744-766 . DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20092.
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Seismoelectric coupling in unsaturated porous media: theory, petrophysics, and saturation front localization using an electroacoustic approach
A. Revil, G. Barnier, M. Karaoulis, P. Sava, A. Jardani, B. Kulessa (2014). Geophysical Journal International 196, 867-884 . DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggt440.
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Impact of water saturation on seismoelectric transfer functions: a laboratory study of coseismic phenomenon
C. Bordes, P. Senechal, J. Barriere, D. Brito, E. Normandin, D. Jougnot (2015). Geophysical Journal International 200, 1317-1335 . DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggu464.
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Seismoelectric couplings in a poroelastic material containing two immiscible fluid phases
A. Jardani, A. Revil (2015). Geophysical Journal International 202, 850-870 . DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggv176.
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Numerical study of frequency-dependent seismoelectric coupling in partially-saturated porous media
U. Djuraev, S. R. Jufar, P. Vasant (2017). MATEC Web of Conferences 87, 02001 . DOI: 10.1051/matecconf/20178702001.
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Seismoelectric coupling equations of oil-wetted porous medium containing oil and water
Y. Zhao, X. Sun, Z. Nie (2023). Electronics 12, 2003 . DOI: 10.3390/electronics12092003.
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Seismoelectric effect of oil-wetted porous media containing two-phase flow
Y. Zhao, X. Sun, Z. Nie (2023). Electronics 12, 346 . DOI: 10.3390/electronics12020346.
Earthquake and coseismic modeling
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Numerical simulation of coseismic electromagnetic fields associated with seismic waves due to finite faulting in porous media
H. Ren, X. Chen, Q. Huang (2012). Geophysical Journal International 188, 925-944 . DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05309.x.
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Coseismic electromagnetic field due to the electrokinetic effect
N. I. Gershenzon, G. Bambakidis, I. Ternovskiy (2014). Geophysics 79(5), E217-E229 . DOI: 10.1190/GEO2014-0125.1.
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Electrokinetic effect combined with surface-charge assumption: a possible generation mechanism of coseismic EM signals
H. Ren, J. Wen, Q. Huang, X. Chen (2015). Geophysical Journal International 200, 835-848 . DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggu435.
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Modeling of the coseismic electromagnetic fields observed during the 2004 Mw 6.0 Parkfield earthquake
Y. Gao et al. (2016). Geophysical Research Letters . DOI: 10.1002/2015GL067183.
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Seismoelectric effect in Lamb's problem
V. V. Surkov, V. M. Sorokin, A. K. Yaschenko (2020). Annals of Geophysics . DOI: 10.4401/AG-8256.
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A numerical study of electrokinetically generated pre-earthquake geoelectric fields in layered porous media
X.-Z. Zheng, H. Ren, Q. Ren, Q. Huang, X. Chen (2025). Geophysical Journal International 240, 1825-1854 . DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggae460.
Processing and inversion
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Curvelet-based seismoelectric data processing
S. Warden, S. Garambois, P. Sailhac, L. Jouniaux, M. Bano (2012). Geophysical Journal International 190, 1533-1550 . DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05587.x.
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An inverse problem for an electroseismic model describing the coupling phenomenon of electromagnetic and seismic waves
E. Bonnetier et al. (2019). Inverse Problems 35, 045002 . DOI: 10.1088/1361-6420/ab01aa.
Interfaces and layered media
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Electroseismic waves from point sources in layered media
M. W. Haartsen, S. R. Pride (1997). Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth . DOI: 10.1029/97JB02936.
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Electroseismic prospecting in layered media
B. S. White, M. Zhou (2006). SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 67(1), 69-98 . DOI: 10.1137/050633603.
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Seismoelectric interface response: experimental results and forward model
M. D. Schakel, D. M. J. Smeulders, E. C. Slob, H. K. J. Heller (2011). Geophysics 76(4), N29-N36 . DOI: 10.1190/1.3592984.
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Seismoelectric fluid/porous-medium interface response model and measurements
M. D. Schakel, D. M. J. Smeulders, E. C. Slob, H. K. J. Heller (2012). Transport in Porous Media 93, 271-282 . DOI: 10.1007/s11242-011-9869-8.
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Existence of evanescent electromagnetic waves resulting from seismoelectric conversion at a solid-porous interface
H. Ren, Q. Huang, X. Chen (2016). Geophysical Journal International 204, 147-166 . DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggv400.
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SH seismoelectric response of a glacier: an analytic study
L. B. Monachesi, F. I. Zyserman, L. Jouniaux (2018). Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface . DOI: 10.1029/2018JF004607.
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Seismoelectric and electroseismic responses to a point source in a marine stratified model
D. Wang, Y. Gao, C. Yao, B. Wang, M. Wang (2020). Geophysical Prospecting 68, 1958-1979 . DOI: 10.1111/1365-2478.12948.
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Seismoelectric and electroseismic modeling in stratified porous media with a shallow or ground surface source
X.-Z. Zheng et al. (2021). Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth . DOI: 10.1029/2021JB021950.
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Seismoelectric conversion at poroelastic/elastic interfaces and the role of dielectric permittivity: experimental and numerical analysis
N. Bernardo, V. Martins-Gomes, C. Bordes, D. Brito (2024). Geophysical Research Letters . DOI: 10.1029/2024GL112994.
Broader seismo-electromagnetics
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Quantitative examination of piezoelectric/seismoelectric anomalies from near-surface targets
L. Eppelbaum (2017). Geosciences 7, 90 . DOI: 10.3390/geosciences7030090.
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Numerical study of global ELF electromagnetic wave propagation with respect to lithosphere-atmosphere-ionosphere coupling
Z. Wang et al. (2021). Remote Sensing 13, 4107 . DOI: 10.3390/rs13204107.
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Recent advances and challenges in the seismo-electromagnetic study: a brief review
H. Chen, P. Han, K. Hattori (2022). Remote Sensing 14, 5893 . DOI: 10.3390/rs14225893.
Laboratory and borehole studies
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Electroseismic and seismoelectric measurements of rock samples in a water tank
Z. Zhu, D. R. Burns, M. N. Toksoz (2007). MIT Earth Resources Laboratory extended report / conference study . DOI: 10.1190/1.2792793.
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Anatomy of a seismoelectric conversion: measurements and conceptual modeling in boreholes penetrating a sandy aquifer
J. C. Dupuis, K. E. Butler, A. W. Kepic, B. D. Harris (2009). Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth . DOI: 10.1029/2008JB005939.
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Experimental validation of the electrokinetic theory and development of seismoelectric interferometry by cross-correlation
F. C. Schoemaker et al. (2012). International Journal of Geophysics . DOI: 10.1155/2012/514242.
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Signal characteristics of electroseismic conversion
R. Peng et al. (2018). Journal of Geophysics and Engineering 15, 377-385 . DOI: 10.1088/1742-2140/aaa0a2.
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Experimental studies on the mechanism of seismoelectric logging while drilling with multipole source
J. Wang, Z. Zhu, W. Guan, Y. Gao, X. Wu (2021). Geophysical Journal International 225, 445-455 . DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggaa566.
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Study of the seismoelectric effect of the second kind using molecular sensors
V. Potylitsyn et al. (2021). Sensors 21, 2301 . DOI: 10.3390/s21072301.
Coupled theory and numerical methods
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Electroseismic wave properties
S. R. Pride, M. W. Haartsen (1996). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 100 . DOI: 10.1121/1.416018.
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Asymptotic theory of electroseismic prospecting
B. S. White (2005). SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 65(4), 1443-1462 . DOI: 10.1137/040604108.
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Finite element approximation of coupled seismic and electromagnetic waves in fluid-saturated poroviscoelastic media
J. E. Santos (2011). Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations 27, 351-386 . DOI: 10.1002/num.20527.
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Finite element modeling of electroseismics and seismoelectrics
F. Zyserman, P. Gauzellino, L. Jouniaux (2020). Chapter 18 in Seismoelectric Exploration: Theory, Experiments and Applications . DOI: 10.1002/9781119127383.ch18.
Reviews and tutorials
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A review on electrokinetically induced seismo-electrics, electro-seismics, and seismo-magnetics for Earth sciences
L. Jouniaux, F. Zyserman (2016). Solid Earth 7, 249-284 . DOI: 10.5194/se-7-249-2016.