Ground-penetrating Radar profiles of rubble-covered temperate glaciers: Results from the Tasman and Mueller glaciers of the Southern Alps of New Zealand

1994 SEG Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 826-829

  Nobes, David C ^a   Leary, S F ^a   Hochstein, M P ^b   Henry, S A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DEBRIS; FAULTING; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; LAKES; REFLECTION;

ALPINE GLACIER; ANISOTROPIC SCATTERING; COMMON MID POINTS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); INTERNAL BOUNDARY; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; TEMPERATE GLACIERS;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

EID: 0000572693     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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