The use of ground penetrating radar to map an ancient village buried by volcanic eruptions

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 40, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 49-58

  Tohge, Miho ^a   Karube, Fumio ^a   Kobayashi, Megumi ^a   Tanaka, Akio ^a   Ishii, Katsumi ^b  

^a OYO CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b Board of Education   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ancient village; Archaeological site; Buried target; GPR investigation; Ground penetrating radar; Japan; Komochi mura village; Pumice; Volcanic eruption

Indexed keywords

MAPPING; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

GROUND PENETRATING RADAR (GPR); PUMICE DEPOSITS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

RADAR IMAGING;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BURIED TARGET; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

JAPAN;

EID: 0032194793     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-9851(97)00039-6     Document Type: Article

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