Electrical resistivity tomography mapping of beachrocks: Application to the island of Thassos (N. Greece)

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 233-240

  David, Psomiadis ^a   Panagiotis, Tsourlos ^a   Konstantinos, Albanakis ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Beachrock; ERT; Geophysics; Greece; Mapping

Indexed keywords

BEACH SEDIMENTS; BEACHROCK; COASTAL EVOLUTION; COASTAL MANAGEMENT; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; ERT; INVERSION PROCEDURE; SEAFLOOR SEDIMENTS; SPECIAL PROCESSING;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GEOPHYSICS; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

MAPPING;

BEACHROCK; COASTAL EVOLUTION; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; CONSTRUCTION METHOD; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GEOPHYSICS; ISLAND; MAPPING METHOD; OUTCROP; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RECREATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; SEAFLOOR; SEAWATER; TOMOGRAPHY;

EASTERN MACEDONIA AND THRACE; GREECE; KAVALA; THASSOS;

EID: 77955143264     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0021-9     Document Type: Article

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