Evolution of hot-spring travertine accumulation in Karlovy Vary/Carlsbad (Czech Republic) and its significance for the evolution of Teplá valley and Ohře/Eger rift

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 427-442

  Vylita, Tomáš ^a,b   Žák, Karel ^a,c   Cílek, Václav ^a,c   Hercman, Helena ^a,d   Mikšíková, Lucie ^a,e  

^a Referential Laboratories of Natural Curative Sources ^*

^b Referential Laboratories of Natural Curative Sources   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^e CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATING METHOD; EEMIAN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; INTERGLACIAL; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMAL SPRING; TRAVERTINE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; KARLOVARSKY; KARLOVY VARY; TEPLA RIVER;

EID: 38149108203     PISSN: 03728854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0372-8854/2007/0051-0427     Document Type: Article

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