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...

Table of Contents:

• Origins of the Components
• The Travertine Fabric
• Morphology and Facies
• Limestone Solution, Groundwater and Spring Emergence
• Chemical Composition of Source Waters
• Mineralogy and Elemental Composition
• Stable Isotopes
• Organisms Associated with Travertine
• Deposition Processes
• Travertine Dating
• Palaeobiology and Biostratigraphy of Quaternary Travertines
• Climate, Man and Travertine
• Travertines and Their Fossils: Archaean to Pliocene
• Related Sediments and Industrial Deposits
• Extraterrestrial Travertine
• Utilisation of Travertine.