Micromorphological Characteristics of Compression Wood Degradation in Waterlogged Archaeological Pine Wood

Holzforschung

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 381-385

  Kim, Yoon Soo ^a   Singh, Adya P ^b  

^a Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^b SCION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Archaeological wood; Bacterial erosion; Bacterial tunnelling; Compression wood; Wood cell wall degradation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000370312     PISSN: 00183830     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/HF.1999.063     Document Type: Article

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