Potential for travertine formation: Fossil Creek, Arizona

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1081-1093

  Malusa, John ^a   Overby, Steven T ^b   Parnell, Roderic A ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; MASS TRANSFER; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); STREAM FLOW;

TRAVERTINE FORMATION;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

DEPOSITION; GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROCHEMISTRY; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; SPRING WATER; TRAVERTINE; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ARIZONA; FOSSIL CREEK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038395933     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0883-2927(02)00241-X     Document Type: Article

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