Chalybeate springs at Tunbridge Wells: Site of a 17th-century new town

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 225, Issue , 2004, Pages 201-212

  Fuller, J G C M ^a  

^a Applied Petrography Group UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; HYDROGEOLOGY; SPRING WATER;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WEALD; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 4344560075     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.13     Document Type: Article

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