Electrical imaging of lateritic weathering mantles over granitic and metamorphic basement of eastern Senegal, West Africa

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 335-344

  Ritz, Michel ^a   Parisot, Jean Claude ^a   Diouf, S ^b   Beauvais, A ^c   Dione, F ^b   Niang, M ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Electrical imaging; Iron crust; Saprolite; Senegal; Tropical weathering; Two dimensional resistivity models

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GRANITE; METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

ELECTRICAL IMAGING; TROPICAL WEATHERING;

ELECTRIC PROSPECTING;

ELECTRICAL METHOD; LATERITE; RESISTIVITY; SAPROLITE; TOMOGRAPHY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

SENEGAL;

EID: 0032864172     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-9851(99)00008-7     Document Type: Article

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