Extreme environments : tufa formation at high pH from lime kiln waste, South Wales

Invasive tufa deposits on Foel Fawr, South Wales are forming from lime kiln waste deposited from the 18th century until the 1950s. The tufa deposits are unusual in their anthropogenic origin and form the largest site of this type in the UK. At emergence pH is extreme (>11) and this consequently g...

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Main Author: Emery, Louis
Published: Cardiff University 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.571753