Delineation of a quick clay zone at Smørgrav, Norway, with electromagnetic methods under geotechnical constraints

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 92, Issue , 2013, Pages 121-136

  Kalscheuer, Thomas ^a   Bastani, Mehrdad ^b   Donohue, Shane ^c   Persson, Lena ^b   Aspmo Pfaffhuber, Andreas ^d   Reiser, Fabienne ^a   Ren, Zhengyong ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d NORWEGIAN GEOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Controlled source audiomagnetotellurics; Direct current resistivity; Joint inversion; Quick clay; Radiomagnetotellurics

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED SOURCE; DIRECT-CURRENT; JOINT INVERSION; QUICK CLAY; RADIO-MAGNETOTELLURICS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC LOGGING; ELECTROMAGNETISM;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

CLAY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; GEOTECHNICAL SURVEY; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; MARINE ENVIRONMENT;

NORWAY;

EID: 84875800452     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2013.02.006     Document Type: Article

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