Review of self-potential methods in hydrogeophysics

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 341, Issue 10-11, 2009, Pages 928-936

  Jouniaux, Laurence ^a   Maineult, Alexis ^b   Naudet, Véronique ^c   Pessel, Marc ^d   Sailhac, Pascal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Aquifer; Electrochemical; Electrokinetics; Inversion; Pollution; Self potential; Water table

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; ELECTRIC FIELD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; HYDROGEOLOGY; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MODELING; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SELF POTENTIAL; WATER TABLE;

EID: 70350404653     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2009.08.008     Document Type: Article

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