Testing ground-penetrating radar for resolving facies architecture changes - A radar stratigraphic and sedimentological analysis along a 30 km profile on the Karup Outwash Plain, Denmark

Near Surface Geophysics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 57-68

  Møller, Ingelise ^a   Vosgerau, Henrik ^a,b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCAVATION; FLOW STRUCTURE; GLACIOFLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; LITHOFACIES; PRECISION; PREDICTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TESTING METHOD; VULNERABILITY;

DENMARK; JUTLAND;

EID: 33646192091     PISSN: 15694445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3997/1873-0604.2005032     Document Type: Article

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