Application of capacitively-coupled and DC electrical resistivity imaging for mountain permafrost studies

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 169-177

  Hauck, Christian ^a   Kneisel, Christof ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capacitatively coupled resistivity; Electrical resistivity tomography; Frequency dependence of resistivity; Mountain permafrost; OhmMapper

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; IMAGING METHOD; PERMAFROST; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33745623926     PISSN: 10456740     EISSN: 10991530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppp.555     Document Type: Article

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