Groundwater surface trends from ground penetrating radar (GPR) profiles taken across Late Holocene barriers and beach plains of the Columbia River littoral system, Pacific Northwest Coast, USA

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 432, Issue , 2007, Pages 59-76

  Peterson, Curt D ^a   Jol, Harry M ^b   Percy, David ^a   Nielsen, Eric L ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal aquifers; Coastal barriers; Ground penetrating radar (GPR); Groundwater surface; Oregon; Washington

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; BEACHES; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; LAKES; STRATIGRAPHY; WATER LEVELS; WETLANDS;

COASTAL AQUIFERS; COASTAL BARRIER; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); OREGON; WASHINGTON;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS;

BEACH; COASTAL AQUIFER; DRAINAGE; DUNE; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUNDWATER; HOLOCENE; LAKE WATER; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

COLUMBIA RIVER; OREGON; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 75749151644     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2432(05)     Document Type: Article

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