Rapid facies changes in Holocene fissure ridge hot spring travertines, Rapolano Terme, Italy

Sedimentology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1145-1158

  Guo, Li ^a,b   Riding, Robert ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fissure ridge; Holocene; Hot spring; Italy; Travertine

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; THERMAL SPRING; TRAVERTINE;

ITALY;

EID: 0033492803     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3091.1999.00269.x     Document Type: Article

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