Comptes Rendus. Géoscience, Volume 341 (2009)

Issue no. 1 Table of Contents

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Geomaterials (Sedimentology)

Does a strong pycnocline impact organic-matter preservation and accumulation in an anoxic setting? The case of the Orca Basin, Gulf of Mexico

Jean Dercourt Nicolas Tribovillard; Viviane Bout-Roumazeilles; Thomas Sionneau; Jean Carlos Montero Serrano; Armelle Riboulleau; François Baudin

p. 1-9

Geochemistry (Isotopic Geochemistry)

Trace element variations in an archeological carbonate deposit from the antique city of Ostia: Environmental and archeological implications

Georges Pédro Julie Carlut; Gilles Chazot; Hélène Dessales; Éloïse Letellier

p. 10-20

Surface geosciences (hydrology-hydrogeology)

Seawater intrusion and associated processes: Case of the Korba aquifer (Cap-Bon, Tunisia)

Ghislain de Marsily Lamia Kouzana; Abdallah Ben Mammou; Mennoubi Sfar Felfoul

p. 21-35

Oceanography

Formation and evolution of paleo-valleys linked to a subsiding canyon, North Aquitaine shelf (France)

Xavier le Pichon Valérie Karin Bellec; Pierre Cirac; Jean-Claude Faugères

p. 36-48

Stratigraphie

Analyse biostratigraphique et sédimentologique des séries éo-oligocènes et miocènes de la Tunisie septentrionale : implications stratigraphiques et géodynamiques
[Biostratigraphical and sedimentological analyses of the Eo-Oligocene and Miocene deposits of northern Tunisia: Stratigraphic and geodynamic implications]

Jacques Angelier Kamel Boukhalfa; Kmar Ben Ismail-Lattrache; Sami Riahi; Mohamed Soussi; Sami Khomsi

p. 49-62

Stratigraphy

The Lochkovian–Pragian boundary in Podolia (Lower Devonian, Ukraine) based upon placoderm vertebrates

Jean Dercourt Vincent Dupret; Alain Blieck

p. 63-70

Tectonics

Vertical movements at the fringe of the West African Craton: First zircon fission track datings from the Anti-Atlas Precambrian basement, Morocco

Jean Aubouin Samira Sebti; Omar Saddiqi; Fatima Zahra El Haimer; André Michard; Geoffrey Ruiz; Romain Bousquet; Lahssen Baidder; Dominique Frizon de Lamotte

p. 71-77

Geodynamics

Late Cretaceous synsedimentary diapirism of Bazina–Sidi Bou Krime Triassic evaporites (northern Tunisia): Geodynamic implications

Jacques Angelier Fahmi Ben Mehrez; Jamel Kacem; Mahmoud Dlala

p. 78-84

Geodynamics

Late Permian lamprophyric magmatism in North-East of Isfahan Province, Iran: A mark of rifting in the Gondwanaland

Jacques Angelier Ghodrat Torabi

p. 85-94

Editorial Board - English

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Issue no. 2-3 Table of Contents

Mécanique de l'orogénie varisque : Une vision moderne de le recherche dans le domaine de l'orogénie
[Mechanics of Variscan Orogeny: A modern view on orogenic research]

Coordinated by: Karel Schulmann; Richard Scrivener; Jean-Marc Lardeaux

Editorial Board - Francais

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Homage to Philippe Matte

Jean-Marc Lardeaux

p. 95-96

Tectonics

Mechanics of Variscan Orogeny: A modern view on orogenic research
[Mécanique de l’orogénie varisque : une vision moderne de la recherche dans le domaine de l’orogénie]

Karel Schulmann

p. 97-102

Tectonics

Tectonic relationships of Southwest Iberia with the allochthons of Northwest Iberia and the Moroccan Variscides

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board José Fernando Simancas; Antonio Azor; David Martínez-Poyatos; Abdelfatah Tahiri; Hassan El Hadi; Francisco González-Lodeiro; Andrés Pérez-Estaún; Ramón Carbonell

p. 103-113

Tectonics

A rootless suture and the loss of the roots of a mountain chain: The Variscan belt of NW Iberia

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board José R. Martínez Catalán; Ricardo Arenas; Jacobo Abati; Sonia Sánchez Martínez; Florentino Díaz García; Javier Fernández Suárez; Pablo González Cuadra; Pedro Castiñeiras; Juan Gómez Barreiro; Alejandro Díez Montes; Emilio González Clavijo; Francisco J. Rubio Pascual; Pilar Andonaegui; Teresa E. Jeffries; James E. Alcock; Rubén Díez Fernández; Alicia López Carmona

p. 114-126

Tectonics

Mechanics of thick-skinned Variscan overprinting of Cadomian basement (Iberian Variscides)

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board António Ribeiro; José Munhá; António Mateus; Paulo Fonseca; Eurico Pereira; Fernando Noronha; José Romão; José Rodrigues; Paulo Castro; Carlos Meireles; Narciso Ferreira

p. 127-139

Tectonics

The Rhenohercynian passive margin of SW England: Development, inversion and extensional reactivation

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Robin K. Shail; Brian E. Leveridge

p. 140-155

Tectonics

Early Palaeozoic orogenic events north of the Rheic suture (Brabant, Ardenne): A review

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Manuel Sintubin; Timothy Nick Debacker; Hervé Van Baelen

p. 156-173

Tectonics

Palaeozoic history of the Armorican Massif: Models for the tectonic evolution of the suture zones

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Michel Ballèvre; Valérie Bosse; Céline Ducassou; Pavel Pitra

p. 174-201

Tectonics

A review of the pre-Permian geology of the Variscan French Massif Central

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Michel Faure; Jean-Marc Lardeaux; Patrick Ledru

p. 202-213

Tectonics

Late evolution of the southern European Variscan belt: Exhumation of the lower crust in a context of oblique convergence

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Michel Corsini; Yann Rolland

p. 214-223

Tectonics

A restored section of the “southern Variscan realm” across the Corsica–Sardinia microcontinent

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Philippe Rossi; Giacomo Oggiano; Alain Cocherie

p. 224-238

Tectonics

The Variscan evolution in the External massifs of the Alps and place in their Variscan framework

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Jürgen F. von Raumer; François Bussy; Gérard M. Stampfli

p. 239-252

Tectonics

Paleozoic evolution of the External Crystalline Massifs of the Western Alps

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Stéphane Guillot; René-Pierre Ménot

p. 253-265

Tectonics

An Andean type Palaeozoic convergence in the Bohemian Massif

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Karel Schulmann; Jiří Konopásek; Vojtĕch Janoušek; Ondrej Lexa; Jean-Marc Lardeaux; Jean-Bernard Edel; Pavla Štípská; Stanislav Ulrich

p. 266-286

Tectonics

Structural evolution of the Ural–Tian Shan junction: A view from Karatau ridge, South Kazakhstan
[Évolution structurale à la jonction Oural–Tien Chan sur l’exemple de la crête de Karatau, Sud Kazakhstan]

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Dmitriy V. Alexeiev; Harry E. Cook; Vasiliy M. Buvtyshkin; Lyudmila Y. Golub

p. 287-297

Editorial Board - English

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Issue no. 4 Table of Contents

Editorial Board - Francais

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Internal geophysics

Seismicity and volcanism in the rifted zone of western Syria

Claude Jaupart Ahmad Bilal

p. 299-305

Géophysique interne

Réfutation de l’hypothèse sismo-acoustique invoquée pour le double bang de la catastrophe de Toulouse (France) du 21 septembre 2001
[Refutation of the seismo-acoustic hypothesis for the double bang of the 21st September 2001, Toulouse (France) catastrophe]

Jean-Louis Le Mouël Alain Joets

p. 306-309

Geomaterials (Petrology)

Genesis of adakite-like lavas of Licancabur volcano (Chile—Bolivia, Central Andes)

Claude Jaupart Oscar Figueroa; Bernard Déruelle; Daniel Demaiffe

p. 310-318

Géochimie

Données nouvelles sur le contenu organique des dépôts phosphatés du gisement de Ras-Draâ (Tunisie)
[New data on the organic matter associated to phosphatic ores of the Ras-Draâ deposit (Tunisia)]

Zdenek Johan Aida Ben Hassen; Jean Trichet; Jean-Robert Disnar; Habib Belayouni

p. 319-326

Surface geosciences (hydrology-hydrogeology)

Equivalent block transmissivity in an irregular 2D polygonal grid for one-phase flow: A sensitivity analysis

Ghislain de Marsily Marco De Lucia; Chantal de Fouquet; Vincent Lagneau; Roberto Bruno

p. 327-338

Surface geosciences (hydrology–hydrogeology)

Tsunami-induced groundwater salinization in southeastern India

Ghislain de Marsily Sophie Violette; Gilles Boulicot; Steven M. Gorelick

p. 339-346

Tectonics

New insights on the structural style of the subsurface of the Tell units in north-western Tunisia issued from seismic imaging: Geodynamic implications

Jacques Angelier Sami Khomsi; Mohamed Soussi; Chokri Mahersi; Mourad Bédir; Héla Fakhfakh-Ben Jemia; Sami Riahi; Kamel Bou Khalfa

p. 347-356

Editorial Board - English

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Issue no. 5 Table of Contents

Transition Océan-Continent
[Ocean-continent transition]

Coordinated by: Gwenn Péron-Pinvidic; Philippe Huchon; Gianreto Manatschal

Editorial Board - Francais

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Oceanography

Ocean-continent transition

Gwenn Péron-Pinvidic; Philippe Huchon; Gianreto Manatschal

p. 357-362

Oceanography

Ophiolites in ocean–continent transitions: From the Steinmann Trinity to sea-floor spreading

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Daniel Bernoulli; Hugh C. Jenkyns

p. 363-381

Oceanography

Geophysical characterisation of the ocean–continent transition at magma-poor rifted margins

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Timothy A. Minshull

p. 382-393

Geodynamics

Melt initiation and mantle exhumation at the Iberian rifted margin: Comparison of pure–shear and upwelling-divergent flow models of continental breakup

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Rosie Fletcher; Nick Kusznir; Mike Cheadle

p. 394-405

Tectonics

Assessing the conditions of continental breakup at magma-poor rifted margins: What can we learn from slow spreading mid-ocean ridges?

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Mathilde Cannat; Gianreto Manatschal; Daniel Sauter; Gwenn Péron-Pinvidic

p. 406-427

Oceanography

Initiation of transform faults at rifted continental margins

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Brian Taylor; Andrew Goodliffe; Fernando Martinez

p. 428-438

Editorial Board - English

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Issue no. 6 Table of Contents

Editorial Board - Francais

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Internal geophysics

Inner core structure: Constraints from frequency dependent seismic anisotropy

Annie Cazenave Annie Souriau

p. 439-445

Internal geophysics (Geodesy)

Wavelet application to the time series analysis of DORIS station coordinates

Michel Petit Zahia Bessissi; Mekki Terbeche; Boualem Ghezali

p. 446-461

Surface geosciences (Hydrology – Hydrogeology)

Effects of rock fragments on water movement and solute transport in a Loess Plateau soil

Ghislain de Marsily Zhou Beibei; Shao Ming’an; Shao Hongbo

p. 462-472

Surface geosciences (Hydrology–Hydrogeology)

Monitoring of water and heat transfer in the vadose zone of a carbonate formation: An example of an underground quarry in Gironde, France

Ghislain de Marsily Adrian Cerepi; Corinne Loisy; René Burlot

p. 473-485

Surface geosciences (Pedology)

3D representation of soil distribution: An approach for understanding pedogenesis

Georges Pedro Frédéric Delarue; Sophie Cornu; Joël Daroussin; Sébastien Salvador-Blanes; Hocine Bourennane; Patrick Albéric; Aurélie Vennink; Ary Bruand; Dominique King

p. 486-494

Oceanography (Marine geophysics)

Crustal structure of the NW Moroccan margin from deep seismic data (SISMAR Cruise)

Jacques Angelier Mohammed Jaffal; Frauke Klingelhoefer; Luis Matias; Fernando Teixeira; Mostafa Amrhar

p. 495-503

Editorial Board - English

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Issue no. 7 Table of Contents

Editorial Board

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External geophysics, climate and environment (Physical and chemical oceanography)

Simulation of the turbidity maximum in the Seine estuary with a two-phase flow model

Xavier le Pichon Julien Chauchat; Sylvain Guillou; Nathaly Barbry; Kim Dan Nguyen

p. 505-512

Internal geophysics

Grain structure of the Earth's inner core
[Structure de grains de la graine terrestre]

Jean Aubouin Lucile Venet; Thierry Duffar; Renaud Deguen

p. 513-516

Geomaterials (Ore deposits)

Ni-Co sulphide segregation in the Mamb pyroxenite intrusion, Cameroon

Zdenek Johan Charles Nkoumbou; Frédéric Villiéras; Pierre Barbey; Clément-Yonta Ngoune; Robert Joussemet; Frédéric Diot; Daniel Njopwouo; Jacques Yvon

p. 517-525

Surface geosciences

Post-cropping change and dynamics in soil and vegetation properties after forest clearing: Example of the semi-arid Mikea Region (southwestern Madagascar)

Georges Pédro Jean-Claude Leprun; Michel Grouzis; Herizo Randriambanona

p. 526-537

Surface geosciences (Hydrology–Hydrogeology)

1896–2006 Sahelian annual rainfall variability and runoff increase of Sahelian Rivers

Georges Pédro Gil Mahé; Jean-Emmanuel Paturel

p. 538-546

Tectonics

Albian extrusion evidences of the Triassic salt and clues of the beginning of the Eocene atlasic phase from the example of the Chitana-Ed Djebs structure (N.Tunisia): Implication in the North African Tethyan margin recorded events, comparisons

Jean Aubouin Mohamed-Montassar Ben Slama; Amara Masrouhi; Mohamed Ghanmi; Mohamed Ben Youssef; Fouad Zargouni

p. 547-556

Tectonics

C-axis fabrics of quartz-ribbons during high-temperature deformation of syn-tectonic granitoids (Sila Massif, Calabria, Italy)

Jacques Angelier Vincenzo Festa

p. 557-567

Editorial Board

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Issue no. 8-9 Table of Contents

Histoire climatique des déserts d'Afrique et d'Arabie
[Climatic history of the African and Arabian deserts]

Coordinated by: Anne-Marie Lézine

Editorial Board

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External geophysics, climate and environment

Climatic history of the African and Arabian deserts

Anne-Marie Lézine

p. 569-574

External geophysics, climate and environment (climate)

A comparison of Indian and African monsoon variability at different time scales

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Serge Janicot

p. 575-590

Surface geosciences (Palaeoclimatology)

Neogene desertification of Africa

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Brigitte Senut; Martin Pickford; Loïc Ségalen

p. 591-602

Surface geosciences (Palaeoenvironment)

Chad Basin: Paleoenvironments of the Sahara since the Late Miocene

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Mathieu Schuster; Philippe Duringer; Jean-François Ghienne; Claude Roquin; Pierre Sepulchre; Abderamane Moussa; Anne-Elisabeth Lebatard; Hassan Taisso Mackaye; Andossa Likius; Patrick Vignaud; Michel Brunet

p. 603-611

External geophysics, climate and environment

Modelling the impact of tectonics, surface conditions and sea surface temperatures on Saharan and sub-Saharan climate evolution

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Pierre Sepulchre; Gilles Ramstein; Mathieu Schuster

p. 612-620

Surface geosciences

Chronology of the impact of Quaternary climate change on continental environments in the Arabian Peninsula

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Frank Preusser

p. 621-632

External geophysics, climate and environment

The speleothem record of climate variability in Southern Arabia

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Dominik Fleitmann; Albert Matter

p. 633-642

External geophysics, climate and environment

The role of the ocean feedback on Asian and African monsoon variations at 6 kyr and 9.5 kyr BP

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Charline Marzin; Pascale Braconnot

p. 643-655

External geophysics, climate and environment

Plant migration and plant communities at the time of the “green Sahara”

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Julie Watrin; Anne-Marie Lézine; Christelle Hély; Contributors

p. 656-670

Surface geosciences (Palaeoenvironment)

Climate and vegetation: Simulating the African humid period

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Christelle Hély; Pascale Braconnot; Julie Watrin; Weipeng Zheng

p. 671-688

Surface geosciences (Palaeoenvironment)

Early to Middle Holocene landscape exploitation in a drying environment: Two case studies compared from the central Sahara (SW Fezzan, Libya)

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Mauro Cremaschi; Andrea Zerboni

p. 689-702

Surface geosciences (Palaeoenvironment)

Coping with uncertainty: Neolithic life in the Dhar Tichitt-Walata, Mauritania, (ca. 4000–2300 BP)

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Augustin F.C. Holl

p. 703-712

Surfaces geosciences (Palaeoenvironment)

Modalities and characteristics of human occupations in Yemen during the Early/Mid-Holocene

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Rémy Crassard

p. 713-725

External geophysics, climate and environment

Extracting wealth from a land of starvation by creating social complexity: A dialogue between archaeology and climate?
[La complexité sociale comme moyen de produire de la richesse dans une terre de pénurie : un dialogue entre archéologie et climat ?]

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Serge Cleuziou

p. 726-738

Surface geosciences (Palaeoenvironment)

The evolution of settlement patterns in the eastern Oman from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (6000–2000 BC)

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Jessica Giraud

p. 739-749

External geophysics, climate and environment

Timing of vegetation changes at the end of the Holocene Humid Period in desert areas at the northern edge of the Atlantic and Indian monsoon systems

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Anne-Marie Lézine

p. 750-759

External geophysics, climate and environment

Climate and environmental change at the end of the Holocene Humid Period: A pollen record off Pakistan

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Sarah J. Ivory; Anne-Marie Lézine

p. 760-769

Surface geosciences (Hydrology – Hydrogeology)

Assessment of Holocene surface hydrological connections for the Ounianga lake catchment zone (Chad)

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Christophe Grenier; Philippe Paillou; Pascal Maugis

p. 770-782

External geophysics, climate and environment

Hydrogeological modeling as a tool supporting the interpretation of pollen proxies for palaeoclimate reconstitution: The Senegalese “niayes” case-study

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Pascal Maugis; Lazar Aguiar; Christophe Grenier

p. 783-793

Editorial Board - English

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Issue no. 10-11 Table of Contents

Hydrogéophysique
[Hydrogeophysics]

Coordinated by: Esteban Auken; Roger Guérin; Ghislain de Marsily; Pascal Sailhac

Editorial Board

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Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)

Hydrogeophysics

Esteben Auken; Roger Guérin; Ghislain de Marsily; Pascal Sailhac

p. 795-799

Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)

Contribution of geophysical surveys to groundwater modelling of a porous aquifer in semiarid Niger: An overview

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Marie Boucher; Guillaume Favreau; Marc Descloitres; Jean-Michel Vouillamoz; Sylvain Massuel; Yahaya Nazoumou; Bernard Cappelaere; Anatoli Legchenko

p. 800-809

Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)

Geophysical characterisation of karstic networks – Application to the Ouysse system (Poumeyssen, France)

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Roger Guérin; Jean-Michel Baltassat; Marie Boucher; Konstantinos Chalikakis; Pierre-Yves Galibert; Jean-François Girard; Valérie Plagnes; Rémi Valois

p. 810-817

Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)

Characterizing the vadose zone and a perched aquifer near the Vosges ridge at the La Soutte experimental site, Obernai, France

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Pascal Sailhac; Maksim Bano; Mickael Behaegel; Jean-François Girard; Ester Falgàs Para; Juanjo Ledo; Guy Marquis; Pierre-Daniel Matthey; José Ortega-Ramírez

p. 818-830

Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)

New in situ techniques for the estimation of the dielectric properties and moisture content of soils

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Jean-Pierre Frangi; Daniel-Christian Richard; Xavier Chavanne; Idris Bexi; Florence Sagnard; Vincent Guilbert

p. 831-845

Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)

Ground penetrating radar imaging and time-domain modelling of the infiltration of diesel fuel in a sandbox experiment

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Maksim Bano; Olivier Loeffler; Jean-François Girard

p. 846-858

Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)

From spatial-continuous electrical resistivity measurements to the soil hydraulic functioning at the field scale

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Isabelle Cousin; Arlène Besson; Hocine Bourennane; Catherine Pasquier; Bernard Nicoullaud; Dominique King; Guy Richard

p. 859-867

Internal geophysics (Applied Geophysics)

Monitoring hydraulic processes with automated time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography (ALERT)

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Oliver Kuras; Jonathan D. Pritchard; Philip I. Meldrum; Jonathan E. Chambers; Paul B. Wilkinson; Richard D. Ogilvy; Gary P. Wealthall

p. 868-885

Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)

Influence of shallow infiltration on time-lapse ERT: Experience of advanced interpretation

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Rémi Clément; Marc Descloitres; Thomas Günther; Olivier Ribolzi; Anatoli Legchenko

p. 886-898

Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)

An integrated study of the hydrogeology of volcanic islands using helicopter borne transient electromagnetic: Application in the Galápagos Archipelago

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Esben Auken; Sophie Violette; Noémi d’Ozouville; Benoît Deffontaines; Kurt I. Sørensen; Andrea Viezzoli; Ghislain de Marsily

p. 899-907

Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)

Joint use of TEM and MRS methods in a complex geological setting

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Anatoly Legchenko; Michael Ezersky; Christian Camerlynck; Abdallah Al-Zoubi; Konstantinos Chalikakis

p. 908-917

Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)

Investigation of sedimentary aquifers in Denmark using the magnetic resonance sounding method (MRS)

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Konstantinos Chalikakis; Mette Ryom Nielsen; Anatoli Legchenko; Tom Feldberg Hagensen

p. 918-927

Internal geophysics (Applied geophysics)

Review of self-potential methods in hydrogeophysics

Written on invitation of the Editorial Board Laurence Jouniaux; Alexis Maineult; Véronique Naudet; Marc Pessel; Pascal Sailhac