Portable X-ray fluorescence and nuclear microscopy techniques applied to the characterisation of southern African rock art paintings

Portable X-ray fluorescence and nuclear microscopy techniques applied to the characterisation of southern African rock art paintings

Thesis (MSc)--Stellenbosch University, 2014. === ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Non-destructive portable X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF) and Particle Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) were used to measure the elemental concentration of rock art fragment paintings. For pXRF the Amptek Silicon Drift Detector (SDD) and Nit...

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Main Author: Steyn, Ruan
Other Authors: Papka, Paul
Format: Others
Language:en_ZA
Published: Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University 2014
Subjects:
X-ray spectroscopy in archaeology
Nuclear microscopy
Rock art painting
Fluorescence spectroscopy
UCTD
Dissertations > Physics
Theses > Physics
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86541

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