Ground-penetrating radar inspection of subsurface historical structures at the baptism (El-Maghtas) site, Jordan

Abueladas, AbdEl-Rahman; Akawwi, Emad

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-9-491-2020

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-9-491-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-9-491-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

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22 Dec 2020

Research article |

| 22 Dec 2020

Ground-penetrating radar inspection of subsurface historical structures at the baptism (El-Maghtas) site, Jordan

AbdEl-Rahman Abueladas and Emad Akawwi

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RC1: 'My first review', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 Aug 2020
- AC1: 'Reviewer comments', AbdEl-Rahman Abueladas, 15 Sep 2020
RC2: 'Ground penetrating radar inspection for Sunsurface Historical Structures at Baptism (El-Maghtas) site, Jordan', Anonymous Referee #2, 25 Aug 2020
- AC2: 'Referee2 comments', AbdEl-Rahman Abueladas, 15 Sep 2020

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AR by Katja Gänger on behalf of the Authors (20 Oct 2020) Author's response

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (06 Nov 2020) by Lev Eppelbaum

Short summary

In this research, we applied a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) approach for excavating the ancient archeological baptism site of the Jordan River. The GPR survey was carried out at representative locations along parallel profiles using a subsurface interface radar system. The GPR profiles revealed multiple subsurface anomalies across the study area. Many features were detected in the study area, such as a buried wall, channels and a pottery pipe at the Elijah's Hill site.