Electrical and magnetic methods in archaeological prospection

Seeing the Unseen - Geophysics and Landscape Archaeology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 67-81

  Schmidt, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL FEATURES; CURRENT FLOWS; DATA SECTIONS; EARTH RESISTANCE; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTRODE ARRAYS; ELECTRODE CONFIGURATIONS; FOUR-PROBE; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS; MAGNETIC METHODS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY MEASUREMENTS; MAGNETOTACTIC BACTERIA; MOISTURE CONTENTS; RESISTIVITY IMAGING; SOIL MATRICES; SOIL PROPERTY;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; GEOPHYSICS; HISTORY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; SURVEYS;

MAGNETISM;

EID: 79952286744     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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