Combined ERT and GPR methods for investigating two-stepped lateritic weathering systems

Geoderma

Volumn 119, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 121-132

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

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^b CEREGE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Electrical resistivity tomography; Ferricrete; Ground penetrating radar; Saprolite; Weathering mantle

Indexed keywords

CLAY; EROSION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; MINERALS; ROCKS; TOMOGRAPHY; WEATHERING;

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY (ERT); FERRUGINOUS MATERIALS;

GEOLOGY;

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; LATERITE; METHODOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; WEATHERING;

AFRICA; SENEGAL; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 1042263944     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2003.06.001     Document Type: Article

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