Sedimentological studies of western Swiss lakes with high-resolution reflection seismic and amphibious GPR profiling

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference Ground Penetrating Radar, GPR 2004

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 577-580

  Fuchs, Michael ^a   Beres, Milan ^a   Anselmetti, Flavio S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Archaeological layer; Facies; Ground penetrating radar; High resolution reflection seismic; Lake level; Stratigraphy; Western Switzerland

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; EROSION; LAKES; RADAR REFLECTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL LAYERS; FACIES; HIGH RESOLUTION REFLECTION SEISMIC (HRS); LAKE LEVEL; WESTERN SWITZERLAND;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 16244372755     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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