{"id":848,"date":"2017-08-14T15:18:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/?page_id=848"},"modified":"2017-09-13T14:02:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T14:02:38","slug":"geochemical","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/index.php\/geochemical\/","title":{"rendered":"Geochemical Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1739\" style=\"width: 312px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1739\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1739\" src=\"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Auguring1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"447\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soil sampling using an auger<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Geochemical surveys analyse soil samples collected from archaeological sites for subtle physical and chemical variations. This helps determine the possible function of a feature from individual soil samples by identifying important diagnostic indicators which are not often appreciable to the naked eye. Geochemical analysis can be used as both a prospection tool and to further our understanding of excavated archaeological sites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"line-height: inherit;\">This allows us to detect <\/span><span style=\"line-height: inherit;\">industrial\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"line-height: inherit;\">and <\/span><span style=\"line-height: inherit;\">metallurgical <\/span><span style=\"line-height: inherit;\">activity<\/span><span style=\"line-height: inherit;\">, cooking sites, <\/span><span style=\"line-height: inherit;\"> refuse <\/span><span style=\"line-height: inherit;\">d<\/span><span style=\"line-height: inherit;\">umping, cess-pits and animal husbandry. Geochemical soil samples can be collected by Earthsound technicians or by archaeological site staff. Each sample needs to be collected using tried and tested methodologies\u00a0 \u2013 we can advise you on how to best achieve this and which technique(s) is\/are appropriate to answer your project requirements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We can carry out the following laboratory analyses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Loss on Ignition analysis (organic content)<\/li>\n<li>Magnetic Susceptibility content<\/li>\n<li>Particle Size analysis<\/li>\n<li>Phosphate analysis<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: inherit;\"><span style=\"line-height: inherit;\">pH analysis<\/span><\/span>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1741\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1741\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1741 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Auguring2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"740\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transferring a soil sample from the auger to a sample bag<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">&copy; 2002- 2026 Earthsound Geophysics Ltd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.earthsound.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/EAG_header_alt_old.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1260\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=EAG_Earthsound\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geochemical surveys analyse soil samples collected from archaeological sites for subtle physical and chemical variations. This helps determine the possible function of a feature from individual soil samples by identifying important diagnostic indicators which are not often appreciable to the naked eye. 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