Abstract

The paper follows on a review articles on Slovak travertines and tufa published in English in 2021. Geomorphological terms such as ‘fissure ridge’, ‘coalesced mound’, ‘self-buiding channel’, ‘keeled waterfall’, ‘smooth slope’, ‘terrased slope’, ‘dams along stream’, ‘peached springline deposits’, ‘moss pillow’ were defined as new in Slovak terminology. Travertine forms are formed by defined facies: ‘crystalline crusts’ with different crystal types, ‘radiating dendrites’, ‘coated bubbles’, ‘rafts’, and ‘breccias’ of various origin. Biogenic facies such as ‘microphyte mats’, ‘microphyte crusts’, ‘microphyte shrubs’, and ‘macrophyte facies’ appear in various tufas and travertines. In lakes, fens and marshes, the ‘lime-mudstones’ and the terms ‘mottling (marmorisation)’ and ‘pseudomikcokarst’ were defined. ‘Travertinized tufa’ was established as a transitional form between travertine and tufa.

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