Geophysical assessment and geotechnical investigation of quick-clay landslides - A Swedish case study

Near Surface Geophysics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 341-350

  Malehmir, Alireza ^a   Bastani, Mehrdad ^b   Krawczyk, Charlotte M ^c   Gurk, Marcus ^d   Ismail, Nazli ^e   Polom, Ulrich ^c   Persson, Lena ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e SYIAH KUALA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; CLAY SOIL; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSLIDE; P-WAVE; POTENTIAL FIELD; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFRACTION; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84880057116     PISSN: 15694445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3997/1873-0604.2013010     Document Type: Article

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