Seismic refraction and electrical resistivity methods in landslide investigations in the Himalayan foothills

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 130-135

  Rame Gowda, B M ^a   Ghosh, N ^a   Wadhwa, R S ^a   Akut, P V ^a   Vaidya, S D ^a  

^a CENTRAL WATER AND POWER RESEARCH STATION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL METHOD; LANDSLIDE; SEISMIC METHOD;

HIMALAYAS; INDIA;

EID: 0031660666     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gseegeosci.iv.1.130     Document Type: Article

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