Detection of subsurface brines, freshwater bodies and the interface configuration in-between by the time domain electromagnetic method in the Dead Sea Rift, Israel

Environmental Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 42-49

  Kafri, U ^a   Goldman, M ^b   Lang, B ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b The Institute for Petroleum Research and Geophysics Israel   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dead Sea Rift; Subsurface brines; Time domain electromagnetics

Indexed keywords

BRINE; ELECTROMAGNETIC SURVEY; TIME DOMAIN;

ISRAEL, DEAD SEA RIFT;

EID: 0030617993     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002540050162     Document Type: Article

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