Refraction tomography over a buried waste disposal site

Geophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1414-1433

  Lanz, Eva ^a   Maurer, Hansruedi ^a   Green, Alan G ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; GEOLOGY; REFRACTION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; LAND FILL;

COST-EFFECTIVE MEANS; NEAR-SURFACE GEOLOGY; POTENTIAL FIELD METHODS; QUANTITATIVE ERROR ANALYSIS; RESULTANT VELOCITIES; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; TRAVEL-TIME RESIDUALS; WASTE DISPOSAL SITES; REFRACTION TOMOGRAPHY;

LAND FILL; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

LANDFILL; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0032125032     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: 19422156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444443     Document Type: Article

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