Aplicación de métodos geofísicos en Arqueología: una recopilación sobre el estado actual de la cuestión en España

Este artículo presenta una recopilación y revisión del actual estado de la aplicación de los métodos geofísicos en prospecciones arqueológicas, en España. Se ha revisado la mayor cantidad posible de bibliografía, para se poder hacer un levantamiento de todos los yacimientos arqueológicos españoles estudiados con métodos geofísicos. Es probable que el número de yacimientos investigados por estos métodos es mayor, pero muchas de las intervenciones son inéditas y el acceso a los informes técnicos es difícil, pues su catalogación no es informatizada. Esto dificulta mucho el trabajo, principalmente cuando se trata de obtener informaciones relacionadas a toda España. La catalogación aquí presentada tiene por objetivo investigar hasta donde ha llegado la colaboración entre geofísica y arqueología y establecer un punto de partida para futuros estudios. Los métodos geofísicos son cada vez mas utilizados como una importante herramienta en la arqueología y este trabajo pretende facilitar la base de datos a los investigadores y personas relacionadas a esta área.

Participació de les aigües subterrànies en la gènesi d'ambients palustres continentals: el cas dels prats de Sant Sebastià (Caldes de Malavella, Girona)

The area known as 'prats de Sant Sebastià' is in Caldes de Malavella. It is part of the wetlands located in the south-eastern end of the Selva Basin. Several areas with unusually high conductivity (EC up to 24,500 uS/cm) have been identified in this place. This fact allows highly specialised and comparatively rare botanical species to grow in this area. These saline soils follow a north-south line-up. The geophysical data, obtained with a field conductivemeter (EM 31), show that this superficial line-up continues in the subsoil. In addition to this, the conductivity cartography, made for an electromagnetic exploration depth of 6 meters, shows that the width of the region where these salinity anomalies take place increases in depth. When included in the hidrogeological context of this sector of the Selva Basin, these data bring new elements for the study of the genesis and working of these marshy environments.The model that future research will have to confirm, maintains that the groundwater discharges coming from the underlying hydrogeothermal aquifer are a conditioning factor of the aforementioned phenomenon. This ascending flow of highly mineralised waters (TDS of about 3,500 mg/l) can produce and keep stable the soil salinity

Aportaciones de la prospección geofísica al estudio del subsuelo del Berguedà y Solsonés, (pre-pirineo Catalán, N.E. de la Península Ibérica)

En este trabajo se presenta la interpretaciónpor métodos geofísicos combinados de un sector del contacto entre el Pre-Pirineo y la La zona objeto del presente estudio se halla a Depresión Central Catalana...

Métodos de reconocimiento del subsuelo

The aim of this workshop is to present the main methods of subsoil studies (namely mechanical and geophysical methods) to the Earth Sciences professorate. These methods frequently involve the use of specific material. The different methods are usually taught in the classroom where there is no real contact between the students and the equipment. Several activities, all of them taking place in surrounding areas of the university campus of Girona, will provide the assistants to the workshop with the opportunity of making measurements with different equipment. These activities will be made in the field so as to contribute to the resolution of a problem which will have been previously proposed. The problems presented are situations, most of them real, when subsoil investigation techniques are usually used. These cases have been employed as teaching-learning strategies with university and second grade students in the area of Girona. Finally, some examples of exercises involving the treatment of data obtained through subsoil investigation techniques are also presented to complement the workshop