Geophysical investigation of the Sandalp rock avalanche deposits

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 277-291

  Socco, Laura Valentina ^a   Jongmans, Denis ^b   Boiero, Daniele ^a   Stocco, Stefano ^a   Maraschini, Margherita ^a   Tokeshi, Ken ^a   Hantz, Didier ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Laterally constrained inversion; Monte Carlo inversion; Multimodal inversion; Noise measurements; P wave tomography; Resistivity tomography; Rock avalanche deposits; Surface waves

Indexed keywords

LATERALLY CONSTRAINED INVERSIONS; MONTE CARLO; MULTI-MODAL; NOISE MEASUREMENTS; P-WAVE TOMOGRAPHY; RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; ROCK AVALANCHE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; SURFACES; THICKNESS CONTROL; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER WAVES;

DEPOSITS;

BEDROCK; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; P-WAVE; ROCK AVALANCHE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TOPOGRAPHY;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77950066839     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2009.12.005     Document Type: Article

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