3D modeling of buried valley geology using airborne electromagnetic data

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Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2015, Pages SAC9-SAC22

  Sapia, Vincenzo ^a   Oldenborger, Greg A ^b   Jørgensen, Flemming ^c   Pugin, André J M ^b   Marchetti, Marco ^a   Viezzoli, Andrea ^d  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^d Aarhus Geophysics APS   (Denmark)

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EID: 84962714943     PISSN: 23248858     EISSN: 23248866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/INT-2015-0083.1     Document Type: Article

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