Factors controlling present-day tufa dynamics in the Monasterio de Piedra Natural Park (Iberian Range, Spain): Depositional environmental settings, sedimentation rates and hydrochemistry

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1027-1049

  Vazquez Urbez M ^a   Arenas, C ^a   Sancho, C ^a   Osacar C ^a   Auque L ^a   Pardo, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Deposition rates; Depositional environmental settings; Hydrochemistry; Modern fluvial tufas; NE Spain

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; ANNUAL VARIATION; BRYOPHYTE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; QUATERNARY; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEMIARID REGION; STROMATOLITE; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; SUPERSATURATION; TUFA; WATER QUALITY;

ANDALUCIA; ARAGON; HUELVA [ANDALUCIA]; MONASTERIO DE PIEDRA NATURAL PARK; PIEDRAS RIVER; SPAIN; ZARAGOZA;

ALGAE; BRYOPHYTES;

EID: 77953649886     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: 14373262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-009-0444-2     Document Type: Article

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