Waterborne and on-land electrical surveys to suggest the geological evolution of a glacial lake in NW Italy

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 105, Issue , 2014, Pages 191-202

  Colombero, Chiara ^a   Comina, Cesare ^a   Gianotti, Franco ^a   Sambuelli, Luigi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Extensive waterborne continuous vertical electrical soundings survey; Groundwater recharge area, reconstruction of lake basin genesis; Key points; Lake basin genesis; Laterally constrained inversion (LCI); Laterally constrained inversion for the identification of the lakebed sediments; Waterborne continuous vertical electrical sounding (CVES)

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; ELECTRIC PROSPECTING; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; LAKES;

CONTINUOUS VERTICAL ELECTRICAL SOUNDINGS; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; GEOPHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION; HYDROGEOLOGICAL INFORMATIONS; KEYPOINTS; LAKE BASINS; LATERALLY CONSTRAINED INVERSIONS; SURFACE WATER AND GROUNDWATERS;

RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

BEDFORM; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GLACIAL LAKE; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; RECONSTRUCTION; SELF POTENTIAL; TOMOGRAPHY; VERTICAL ELECTRICAL SOUNDING;

ITALY; LAKE CANDIA; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; TORINO [PIEDMONT];

EID: 84898814345     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2014.03.020     Document Type: Article

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