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Contribution Title A study on the correlation between microbial decay and the accumulation of sulfur and iron in oak shipwreck timbers.
Main Author Y. Fors
Co-authors C. Bjordal, H. Grudd
Working Group Wet Organic Archaeological Materials
Type Paper
Keywords Archaeological wood, sulfur, iron, erosion bacteria, soft rot, degradation, XRF, light microscopy
Language English
Year / Venue 2016 Florence
in Publication Wet Organic Archaeological Materials 2016. Proceedings of the 13th ICOM-CC Wet Organic Archaeological Materials Working Group, Florence 2016
ISBN (publication) 978-2-491997-44-1
Publisher ICOM-CC

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