Exploring soil layers and water tables with ground-penetrating radar

Pedosphere

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 273-282

  Roth, K ^a   Wollschlager U ^a   Cheng, Zhu Hua ^a,b   Zhang, Jia Bao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Ground penetrating radar; Soil layers; Water table

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; WATER TABLE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH CHINA PLAIN;

EID: 3843099229     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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