North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics
North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics
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Project Name: Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, IL;
Reference: Dalan, R.A. and B.W. Bevan (1998). Directionality of Geophysical Parameters as an Indicator of Cultural and Natural Deposits: Experiments at the Cahokia Mounds Site. Office of Contract Archaeology, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville, Illinois. Geosight, Pitman, New Jersey. Submitted to Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield, Illinois.
A plot of the resistivity pseudosection. The resistivity increases with increasing electrode spacing; this means that it also increases with increasing depth. The stratification of resisitivity is quite different near the right end of the pseudosection.