Application of a two-dimensional electrical tomography technique for investigating landslides along the Amman-Dead Sea highway, Jordan

Environmental Geology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 399-403

  Batayneh, Awni T ^a   Al Diabat, Abdullah A ^a  

^a Natural Resources Authority   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Electrical tomography; Jordan; Landslide; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FRACTURE; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; LANDSLIDES; LIMESTONE; RAIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY;

ELECTRICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

GEOLOGY;

ELECTRICAL METHOD; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; LANDSLIDE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY;

JORDAN;

EID: 0036664176     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-002-0543-x     Document Type: Article

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