Hot-spring travertine facies and sequences, Late Pleistocene, Rapolano Terme, Italy

Sedimentology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 163-180

  Guo, Li ^a,b   Riding, Robert ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b W Bldg Huntingdon Road CB3 0DJ   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL SYSTEM; HOT SPRING; PLEISTOCENE; TRAVERTINE;

ITALY;

EID: 0031843866     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1998.00141.x     Document Type: Article

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