High-resolution gravity study of the Gray Fossil Site

Geophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Whitelaw, J L ^a   Mickus, Kevin ^b   Whitelaw, M J ^a   Nave, J ^c  

^a EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drilling; Gravity; Palaeontology; Topography (Earth)

Indexed keywords

3D MODELING; ANIMALS; AUGERS; DRILLING; GRAVITATION; INFILL DRILLING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; TOPOGRAPHY;

DENSITY MODELING; DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION; GRAVITY MEASUREMENT; INVERSE MODELING; PALAEONTOLOGY; PARTIAL COALESCENCE; RESIDUAL GRAVITY; STRUCTURAL FEATURE;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

BOREHOLE; DRILLING; FILL; FOSSIL; GRAVITY ANOMALY; GRAVITY SURVEY; PALEOKARST; PALEONTOLOGY; SINKHOLE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOPOGRAPHY;

NORTH AMERICA; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON COUNTY [TENNESSEE];

EID: 58149264918     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2829987     Document Type: Article

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