Automated geotechnical characterisation from geophysical logs: Examples from Southern Colliery, Central Queensland

Exploration Geophysics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 336-339

  Zhou, Binzhong ^a   Hatherly, Peter ^a   Guo, Hua ^a   Poulsen, Brett ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Full waveform sonic; Geophysical logs; Geotechnical characterisation; Strata

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009380188     PISSN: 08123985     EISSN: 18347533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EG01336     Document Type: Article

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