Evaluation of trenching, ground penetrating radar (GPR) and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) for sinkhole characterization

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 214-227

  Carbonel, Domingo ^a   Rodríguez, Verónica ^a   Gutiérrez, Francisco ^a   Mccalpin, James P ^b   Linares, Rogelio ^c   Roqué, Carles ^d   Zarroca, Mario ^c   Guerrero, Jesús ^a   Sasowsky, Ira ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b GEO HAZ Consulting Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

ERT; GPR; Retrodeformation analysis; Sinkhole hazard; Subsidence rate

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRATIGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRENCHING;

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; ERT; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); KINEMATIC BEHAVIORS; RETRODEFORMATION ANALYSIS; SINKHOLE HAZARD; STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIP; SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES;

SUBSIDENCE;

DEFORMATION; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GEOMETRY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINKHOLE; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRENCH;

EID: 84892668900     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3440     Document Type: Article

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