Investigation of waste disposal areas using electrical methods: A case study from Chania, Crete, Greece

Environmental Geology

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1249-1261

  Soupios, Pantelis ^a   Papadopoulos, Ilias ^a,b   Kouli, Maria ^a   Georgaki, Irene ^a   Vallianatos, Filippos ^a   Kokinou, Eleni ^a  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cave detection; Electrical tomography; Environmental geophysics; Landfills

Indexed keywords

CLAY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; IMAGING SYSTEMS;

CAVE DETECTION; ELECTRIC RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY (ERT); ELECTRICAL TOMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL GEOPHYSICS;

LAND FILL;

ELECTRICAL METHOD; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; IMAGING METHOD; LANDFILL; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY; WASTE DISPOSAL;

CANEA; CRETE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33846589206     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-006-0418-7     Document Type: Article

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