The use of GPR to detect active layers in young periglacial terrain of Livingston Island, Maritime Antarctica

Near Surface Geophysics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 331-336

  Schwamborn, Georg ^a   Wagner, Dirk ^a   Hubberten, Hans W ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; DETECTION METHOD; EXCAVATION; GLACIER RETREAT; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; ICE MARGIN; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; PERMAFROST; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TERRAIN; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VOLCANIC SOIL; WAVE VELOCITY;

ANTARCTICA; LIVINGSTON ISLAND; SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS;

EID: 53549131960     PISSN: 15694445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3997/1873-0604.2008008     Document Type: Article

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