Chemical and mineralogical characterization of historic mortars from the Santa Eulalia de Bóveda temple, NW Spain

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2346-2351

  Sanjurjo Sanchez J ^a   Trindade, M J ^b,e   Blanco Rotea, R ^c   Garcia, R Benavides ^d   Mosquera, D Fernández ^a   Burbidge, C ^b,e   Prudencio M I ^b,e   Dias, M I ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO E NUCLEAR   (Portugal)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

^d TOMOS   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Historic mortars; Mineralogy; REE; Santa Eulalia de B veda; Spain

Indexed keywords

BUILDING; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GEOCHEMISTRY; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; MINERALOGY; MORTAR; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; PROVENANCE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

SPAIN;

EID: 77954243620     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2010.04.008     Document Type: Article

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