Subsurface architecture of the boulder creek critical zone observatory from electrical resistivity tomography

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1417-1431

  Leopold, Matthias ^a   Völke, Jörg ^b   Huber, Juliane ^b   Dethier, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Boulder creek critical zone observatory; Critical zone architecture; Electrical resistivity tomography; Geomorphology; Stratified slope deposits

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ZONES; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; GEOMORPHIC HISTORY; GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES; MODEL DRIVEN APPROACH; SLOPE DEPOSIT; SPECIFIC RESISTIVITIES; WEATHERED BEDROCK;

DEPOSITS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LAKES; LANDFORMS; OBSERVATORIES; ROCKS; WEATHERING;

ARCHITECTURE;

BEDROCK; ELECTRICAL METHOD; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAPROLITE; TOMOGRAPHY; WEATHERING;

COLORADO; GREEN LAKES VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84890169430     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3420     Document Type: Article

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