High resolution of glacial ice stratigraphy: A ground-penetrating radar study of Pegasus Runway, McMurdo Station, Antarctica

Geophysics

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1653-1663

  Arcone, Steven A ^a  

^a Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; ICE; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; METADATA; STRATIGRAPHY; AIRPORT RUNWAYS; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; RADAR; SALT WATER INTRUSION;

DIELECTRIC PERTURBATION; DISCRETE SCATTERERS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; HILBERT TRANSFORMATIONS; MINERAL PARTICLES;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR;

AIRPORT RUNWAY; GPR; GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR; ICE; ICE MECHANICS; REMOTE SENSING; RUNWAY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL WEAKNESSES;

ANTARCTICA, MCMURDO STATION;

EID: 0030292044     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444084     Document Type: Article

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