Ground-penetrating radar facies as an aid to sequence stratigraphic analysis: Application to the archaeology of Clonmacnoise Castle, Ireland

Archaeological Prospection

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 247-262

  Ruffell, Alastair ^a   Geraghty, Louise ^b   Brown, Colin ^b   Barton, Kevin ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Accommodation space; Clonmacnoise (Co. Offaly); Facies; Ground penetrating radar; Key surfaces; Palaeoenvironments; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919840874     PISSN: 10752196     EISSN: 10990763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/arp.240     Document Type: Article

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