Geotechnical study for evaluating stability and restoration work at the 1000 year old archaeological site of Ayla, Gulf of Aqaba, Kingdom of Jordan

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 103-114

  Al Homoud, Azm S ^a,b   Tal, Ahmed B ^c  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^b Dar Al Handasah (Shair and Partners)   (United Arab Emirates)

^c Geotechnical Eng and Mat Test Co   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BEARING CAPACITY; FOUNDATION;

AYLA; JORDAN;

EID: 0031690792     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gseegeosci.iv.1.103     Document Type: Article

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