Geology prediction ahead of the excavation front by Tunnel-Seismic-While-Drilling (TSWD) method

SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1211-1214

  Petronio, Lorenzo ^a   Poletto, Flavio ^a   Schleifer, Andrea ^a   Morino, Alberto ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b gd test srl   (Italy)

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EID: 84955155756     PISSN: 10523812     EISSN: 19494645     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1817499     Document Type: Conference Paper

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