Non-destructive portable gamma ray spectrometry used in provenancing Roman granitoid columns from Leptis Magna, North Africa

Archaeometry

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 77-99

  Williams Thorpe, O ^a   Webb, P C ^a   Thorpe, R S ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Column; Granite; Granitoid; Leptis magna; Libya; Magnetic susceptibility; Non destructive annalysis; North Africa; Portable gamma ray spectrmetry; Provenance; Roman; Stone

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034134839     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2000.tb00867.x     Document Type: Article

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