Integrated geophysical surveys on waste dumps: Evaluation of physical parameters to characterize an urban waste dump (four case studies in Italy)

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 390-402

  Cardarelli, Ettore ^a   Di Filippo, Gerardina ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Geoelectric method; Geophysics; Pollution; Waste dump; wmr 619 1

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; LEACHATE TREATMENT; POLARIZATION; SEISMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE TOMOGRAPHY (ERT); GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS; SEISMIC REFRACTION;

SOLID WASTES;

ELECTRICAL METHOD; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; POLARIZATION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; TOMOGRAPHY; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUMPING; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ITALY; LEACHING; P WAVE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; THICKNESS; URBAN AREA; VELOCITY; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

DATA COLLECTION; EVALUATION STUDIES; ITALY; PHYSICS; REFUSE DISPOSAL;

EID: 7244227777     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X04046042     Document Type: Article

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