Discovery of the Avon – Solent Fracture Zone and its relationship to Bath hot springs |
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Authors: | G A Kellaway |
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Institution: | (1) 14 Cranedown, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 3NA, UK, GB |
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Abstract: | The hot springs of Bristol and Bath and two geothermal wells at Southampton are located on a 155-km-long Avon–Solent Fracture
Zone extending in a NW–SE direction from the Severn Estuary to the English Channel. Initiated during the Variscan earth movements
and reactivated in Miocene times, the structure, which extends across the English Channel to France, is still active. With
this discovery, it should now be possible to throw fresh light on the origin and movement of the thermal water at Bath and
thus to protect the hot springs from derogation by limestone quarrying.
Received: 16 October 1995 · Accepted: 13 February 1996 |
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Keywords: | Thermal waters Avon Solent Fracture Zone Hot springs Bath England |
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