Conference Name:4th WSEAS International Conference on Applications of Electrical Engineering, (AEE 05)
In this work an attempt is made to compare the spectrum of ac conductivity time series, on various
frequencies, of low porosity geomaterial samples that were contaminated by hydrocarbon compounds and
others that were not influenced by contaminators. The used geomaterials were Mt. Penteli marbles. The power
spectral density was calculated for both, contaminated and not, samples with the aid of wavelet transform in
order to achieve time-frequency localization. The shape of the log-log plot of the power spectral density show
clear differences between the contaminated samples and those that had not been affected by the hydrocarbon
contamination compounds.