Bath thermal waters: 400 years in the history of geochemistry and hydrogeology

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 225, Issue , 2004, Pages 193-199

  Edmunds, W Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; RESEARCH; THERMAL SPRING;

BATH; BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 4344633598     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.225.01.12     Document Type: Article

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