Los travertinos de Baños de Mula (Murcia). Una roca de interés sedimentológico y arqueológico
The coloured travertine of the Baños de Mula,were used as dimensional stone among other sites in the Roman Theatre in Cartagena (Red Mula Travertine). This rock has good mechanical properties and water behavior. These properties show strong anisotropy related to the characteristic bedding planes vis...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2014 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Huelva (UHU) |
| Repositorio: | Arias Montano. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ariasmontano.uhu.es:10272/10655 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10272/10655 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Travertine Red Mula Travertine Petrophysical properties Dimension stone Thermal spring carbonates Travertino Travertino Rojo Mula Propiedades petrofísicas Roca dimensional Carbonatos de fuentes termales |
| Sumario: | The coloured travertine of the Baños de Mula,were used as dimensional stone among other sites in the Roman Theatre in Cartagena (Red Mula Travertine). This rock has good mechanical properties and water behavior. These properties show strong anisotropy related to the characteristic bedding planes visually defined by changes in the color intensity and pore distribution. Their textural features show the prevalence of layers consisting of fibrous and fibrous-radiated crystals with a late stage cementing Fe oxyhydroxides and micritic aggregates following colonial bacterial morphologies. Both features may be related to bacterial activity. All these data point in favor of a genesis related upwelling of thermal waters. These hydrothermal processes are connected with hydrothermal circulation along the active faults, and are manifested at present in the hot springs of Baños de Mula |
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