Electrical tomography monitoring of the excavation damaged zone of the Gallery 04 in the Mont Terri rock laboratory: Field experiments, modelling, and relationship with structural geology

Applied Clay Science

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 21-34

  Gibert, Dominique ^a   Nicollin, Florence ^a   Kergosien, Bruno ^a   Bossart, Paul ^d   Nussbaum, Christophe ^b   Grislin Mouëzy, Agnès ^a   Conil, Frédéric ^a   Hoteit, Nasser ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Geotechnisches Institut AG   (Switzerland)

^c ANDRA   (France)

^d Swiss Federal Office of Topography   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

EDZ; Electrical tomography; Mont Terri; Radioactive wastes

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; ELECTRODES; EXCAVATION; ROCKS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ELECTRICAL TOMOGRAPHY MONITORING; ELECTRODE ARRAY; EXCAVATION DAMAGED ZONE; ROCK FORMATION;

CLAY;

CLAY; DAMAGE; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; EXCAVATION; MODELING; MONITORING; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33744504675     PISSN: 01691317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clay.2006.03.008     Document Type: Article

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