Analysis of poorly stratified lateritic terrains overlying a granitic bedrock in West Africa, using 2-D electrical resistivity tomography

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 413-424

  Beauvais, Anicet ^a   Ritz, Michel ^b   Parisot, Jean Claude ^b   Dukhan, Michel ^b   Bantsimba, Christian ^b,c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

Author keywords

Geomorphology; Laterites; Resistivity; Saprolite; Seneg al; Tomography; Weathering

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; EROSION; LATERITE; SAPROLITE; TOPOGRAPHY; WEATHERED MEDIUM;

SENEGAL;

EID: 0033573533     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00245-9     Document Type: Article

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