Travertine

• Main Author: Pentecost, Allan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geology.; Economic geology.; Sedimentology.; Life sciences.; Aquatic ecology.; Materials science.; Earth Sciences.; Economic Geology.; Materials Science, general.; Freshwater & Marine Ecology.; Life Sciences, general.

uring the spring of 1960, an uncle showed me a ‘petrifying spring’ near Plaxtol in Kent Dwhere twigs had been encased in a calcareous jacket. A twig was collected and having - cently been given I. Evan’s Observer’s Book of Geology by my parents, I found a photograph of another petrifying spring and...