US EditionLimescale deposits reveal how ancient Arles adapted its aqueducts
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Limescale deposits reveal how ancient Arles adapted its aqueducts
Researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the University of Oxford, and the University of Innsbruck have deciphered the complex history of the ancient aqueduct system of Arles in Provence. This was made possible by aqueduct carbonates—limescale—that had deposited in the aqueducts, basins, and lead pipes, as well as lumps of aqueduct carbonate that had been used as building aggregate in the roof of the Baths of Constantine. The …
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