Open AccessGeoelectrical study of archaeological structures in the Himera plane (North-western Sicily)
Author(s) -
Pietro Cosentino,
Dario Luzio,
E. Rotigliano
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
annals of geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 2037-416X
pISSN - 1593-5213
DOI - 10.4401/ag-3956
Subject(s) - alluvium , geology , plane (geometry) , archaeology , electrical resistivity and conductivity , dipole , geophysics , geomorphology , geometry , geography , engineering , physics , mathematics , electrical engineering , quantum mechanics
This paper presents the results obtained from a geoelectrical study carried out on the Himera plane for archaeological research. Both the tripotential method and the dipole-dipole profile method have been used on a 40 m ´ 40 m investigation area in order to obtain several resistivity maps. The latter show different geoelectrical anomalies, the shape of which allows us to interpret simple archaeological structures, consistent with current knowledge of ancient Himera sites. Furthermore, the study of the whole set of data in the resistivity domain has allowed us to infer some other characteristics from the subsequent geological process of alluvial covering of the site