TEM-fast small-loop soundings to map underground tunnels and galleries connecting the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 433-448

  Ranieri, Gaetano ^a   Haile, Tigistu ^b   Alemayehu, Tamiru ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; MAP; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TUNNEL; UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION;

ETHIOPIA; LALIBELA;

EID: 19844365216     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.20064     Document Type: Article

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