10th September 2013, 04:16 PM
PhaseSI Wrote:Regarding Kevin's comment above. Archaeological geophysics is just one of many applications of near-surface geophysics and is not even the biggest. .... Other applications include looking for underground storage tanks, buried foundations, old basements, mineshafts, mine adits and deeper workings, solution features, mapping near-surface geology and bedrock profiling, unexploded bomb or ordnance detection, assessing the condition of roads, soil mapping, locating rebars, bridge inspections, mapping rail ballast variations to name just fourteen or so (Iâm not including oil, gas or mineral exploration here ...). There's probably a few more listed on our website.
In my defence (and echoing another thread as to what might or might not be defined as archaeology) I would say that any thing buried and of an anthropogenic nature would to my mind count as 'archaeology'.....i.e 'underground storage tanks, buried foundations, old basements, mineshafts, mine adits and deeper workings, .... unexploded bomb or ordnance detection, assessing the condition of roads, soil mapping, locating rebars, bridge inspections, mapping rail ballast variations' confirm my prognosis. I accept that there are geological uses for geophysics, but would say in the main part these are on a macro rather than micro scale needed for specific archaeological use.
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