Spectroscopic and ancient geomagnetic field intensity studies on archaeological pottery samples, India

Lithuanian Journal of Physics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 195-202

  Manoharan, C ^a   Veeramuthu, K ^a   Venkatachalapathy, R ^a   Radhakrishna, T ^b   Ilango, R ^c  

^a ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b CENTRE FOR EARTH SCIENCE STUDIES   (India)

^c VIVEKANANDA COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Archaeological artifacts; FTIR and paleointensity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950626648     PISSN: 16488504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3952/lithjphys.48212     Document Type: Article

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