Wrought iron from the USS Monitor: Minerology, petrology and metallograpy

Archaeometry

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 613-631

  Boesenberg, J S ^a,b  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Civil war; Electron microphobe; Phosphoran olivine; Puddling; Slag; USS Monitor; Wrought iron

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; IRON; MINERALOGY; PETROLOGY;

EID: 33750074413     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: 14754754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2006.00276.x     Document Type: Article

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