A saline trace test monitored via time-lapse surface electrical resistivity tomography

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 244-259

  Cassiani, Giorgio ^a   Bruno, Vittorio ^a   Villa, Alberto ^a   Fusi, Nicoletta ^a   Binley, Andrew M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electrical resistivity tomography; Hydrogeology; Tracer test

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING; HYDROGEOLOGY; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; TIME LAPSE SURVEY; TRACER TEST;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; HYDROGEOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; TRACE ELEMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; PO RIVER; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33744938192     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2005.10.007     Document Type: Article

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