The alban hills and monti sabatini volcanic products used in ancient roman masonry (Italy): An integrated stratigraphic, archaeological, environmental and geochemical approach

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 108, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 115-136

  Marra, F ^a   Deocampo, D ^b   Jackson, M D ^c   Ventura, G ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alban Hills; Geoarchaeology; Geochemistry; Monti Sabatini; Pedology; Quaternary volcanism

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MASONRY; PEDOGENESIS; PEDOLOGY; QUATERNARY; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM; WEATHERING;

ALBAN HILLS; APENNINES; ITALY; LAZIO; SABATINI MOUNTAINS; VITERBO;

EID: 80052081179     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.06.005     Document Type: Review

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