The use of microgravity technique in archaeology: A case study from the St. Nicolas church in pukanec, slovakia

Contributions to Geophysics and Geodesy

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 237-254

  Pánisová, Jaroslava ^a   PaŠteka, Roman ^b  

^a Geophysical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences   (Slovakia)

^b Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Archaeo prospecting; Bouguer anomaly; Cavity detection; Historic buildings; Microgravity; Vertical gravity gradient

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; BOUGUER ANOMALY; DECONVOLUTION; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; GRAVITY FIELD; GRAVITY SURVEY; HISTORIC BUILDING; RELIGION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NITRIANSKY; PUKANEC; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 70449556119     PISSN: 13352806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10126-009-0009-1     Document Type: Article

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