Electrical resistivity tomography applied to geologic, hydrogeologic, and engineering investigations at a former waste-disposal site

Geophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Chambers, Jonathan E ^a   Kuras, Oliver ^a   Meldrum, Philip I ^a   Ogilvy, Richard D ^a   Hollands, Jonathan ^b  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b North Lanarkshire Council   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Faulting; Groundwater; Land pollution; Rocks; Terrestrial electricity; Waste disposal

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; HYDROGEOLOGY; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; LAND POLLUTION; LANDFILL SITE; TERRESTRIAL ELECTRICITY;

LAND FILL;

DATA INVERSION; ELECTRICAL METHOD; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; LANDFILL; QUARRY; SITE INVESTIGATION; TOMOGRAPHY; WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 33751057805     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2360184     Document Type: Article

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