Bone porosity and the use of mercury intrusion porosimetry in bone diagenesis studies

Archaeometry

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 165-174

  Nielsen Marsh, C M ^a,b   Hedges, R E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bone; Diagenesis; Histology; Macroporosity; Mercury intrusion porosimetry; Mesoporosity; Microporosity; Pore size distribution; Protein content; Splitting factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033068222     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.1999.tb00858.x     Document Type: Article

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