EGU2020-4917, updated on 12 Jun 2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-4917
EGU General Assembly 2020
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Subsurface investigation of the Terrace of the Elephants in the Angkor world heritage site using geophysical survey

Kwangwu Lee1, Kiju Kim2, Byungsuk Park1, Wooseok Kim1, and Jaehyeung Jeoung1
Kwangwu Lee et al.
  • 1Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology, Department of Infrastructure Safety Research, Korea, Republic of (kwangwu@kict.re.kr)
  • 2BEarth,Inc.

Geophysical survey methods are widely applied into not only underground water exploration and environmental pollution & civil engineering fields of the ground, but also in the archeological field such as exploration of the historic remains. The electrical resistivity tomography(ERT) and seismic surveys were conducted to determine the distribution of underground around the terrace of the elephants. ERT survey was conducted to investigate the natural geological distribution and artificial ground around the terrace of the elephants and seismic survey was conducted to find out the velocity distribution of the terrace of the elephants. ERT resulted in a difference in the traces of artificial ground composition around natural ground and terrace of the elephants. Geophysical survey could be used to infer the range and purpose of the underground composition of historic remains (KOICA Project Number: 2019-00065).

How to cite: Lee, K., Kim, K., Park, B., Kim, W., and Jeoung, J.: Subsurface investigation of the Terrace of the Elephants in the Angkor world heritage site using geophysical survey, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-4917, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-4917, 2020