Stratigraphic profiling with ground-penetrating radar in permafrost: A review of possible analogs for Mars

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 2002, Pages

  Arcone, Steven A ^a   Prentice, Michael L ^b   Delaney, Allan J ^a  

^a Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ground penetrating radar; Permafrost

Indexed keywords

FROZEN GROUND; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; MARS; PERMAFROST; STRATIGRAPHY;

ALASKA; ANTARCTICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037176020     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002je001906     Document Type: Article

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