Inorganic deterioration affecting the Altamira Cave, N Spain: Quantitative approach to wall-corrosion (solutional etching) processes induced by visitors

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 243-244, Issue , 1999, Pages 67-84

  Sanchez Moral S ^a,d   Soler, V ^c   Canaveras J C ^a,b   Sanz Rubio, E ^a   Van Grieken, R ^d   Gysels, K ^d  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE PRODUCTOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Altamira cave; Carbonates; Corrosion; Deterioration; Karstic; Microenvironment; Solutional etching

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBONIC ACID; ESCULIN;

CAVE; CORROSION; ETCHING; LIMESTONE;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CORROSION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMIDITY; PAINTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SPAIN; THERMODYNAMICS;

SPAIN;

EID: 0041758311     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(99)00348-4     Document Type: Article

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