Salt mapping in the Lower Macquarie area, Australia, using airborne electromagnetic data

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 613-623

  Palamara, Daniel Richard ^a   Rodriguez, V Boero ^a   Kellett, J ^a   Macaulay, S ^a  

^a BUREAU OF RURAL SCIENCES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Airborne electromagnetics; Groundwater; Salinity

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES; AIRBORNE ELECTROMAGNETIC; AIRBORNE ELECTROMAGNETICS; AUSTRALIA; BULK CONDUCTIVITIES; CONDUCTIVITY DATA; DRILL HOLE; ELECTROMAGNETICS; FIELD-BASED MEASUREMENTS; LINEAR MODEL; NEW SOUTH WALES , AUSTRALIA; PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT; REGIONAL HYDROGEOLOGY; SURVEY DATA;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PROSPECTING; ELECTROMAGNETISM; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; ROCK DRILLS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; STRATIGRAPHY; SURVEYS;

RETAIL STORES;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; HYDROGEOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; SALINITY; SALT; WEATHERING;

AUSTRALIA; MACQUARIE VALLEY; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 77954533527     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0375-z     Document Type: Article

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