Delineation of a fault zone beneath a riverbed by an electrical resistivity survey using a floating streamer cable

Exploration Geophysics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 50-58

  Kwon, Hyoung Seok ^a   Kim, Jung Ho ^b   Ahn, Hee Yoon ^c   Yoon, Jin Sung ^c   Kim, Ki Seog ^c   Jung, Chi Kwang ^d   Lee, Seung Bok ^e   Uchida, Toshihiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

^c HeeSong Geotek Co Ltd   (South Korea)

^d ESCO Engineers and Consultants Company Ltd   (South Korea)

^e Samsung C and T Corporation   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Continuous resistivity profiling; Fault zone; Streamer resistivity survey; Water covered area

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746511261     PISSN: 08123985     EISSN: 18347533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EG05050     Document Type: Article

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