A new database of the quantitative cathodoluminescence of the main quarry marbles used in antiquity

Blanc, Philippe ; Lapuente Mercadal, M. Pilar (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Gutiérrez Garcia-Moreno, Anna

Resumen: Quantitative cathodoluminescence (CL) has rarely been applied for the archaeometric studies concerning marble provenance, despite its potential. This paper develops the method and provides a new database of the parameters obtained from the main marble quarries used in antiquity. With a total number of 473 marble samples from ten districts of the central and eastern Mediterranean, it is the first database on quantitative CL, with the additional advantage of being the same samples that have already characterized by other conventional techniques and that are available in the literature. Focused on the measurements of the intensity peaks at the UV and visible spectra, registered by a spectrometer coupled to a scanning electron microscope (CL-SEM), the representative values are plotted on different useful diagrams to be applied in the identification of marble provenance studies, as a complementary tool of other analyses.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.3390/min10040381

Año: 2020

Publicado en: Minerals 10, 4 (2020), 381 [16 pp.]
ISSN: 2075-163X

Factor impacto JCR: 2.644 (2020)

Categ. JCR: GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS rank: 41 / 87 = 0.471 (2020) - Q2 - T2
Categ. JCR: MINING & MINERAL PROCESSING rank: 9 / 21 = 0.429 (2020) - Q2 - T2
Categ. JCR: MINERALOGY rank: 11 / 30 = 0.367 (2020) - Q2 - T2

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.524 - Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (Q2) - Geology (Q2)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/HAR2015-65319-P

Tipo y forma: Artículo (Versión definitiva)

Área (Departamento): Área Petrología y Geoquímica (Dpto. Ciencias de la Tierra)