Joint inversion of gravity and geoelectrical data for groundwater and structural investigation: Application to the northwestern part of Sinai, Egypt

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 165, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 705-718

  Monteiro Santos, F A ^a   Sultan, S A ^b   Represas, Patrícia ^a   El Sorady, A L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Egypt)

^c Egyptian Mineral Resources Authority   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Egypt; Electrical resistivity; Gravity; Groundwater; Inversion; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GEOELECTRIC FIELD; GRAVITY FIELD; GROUNDWATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; TECTONICS;

AFRICA; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA; SINAI;

EID: 33745940369     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.02923.x     Document Type: Article

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