Origins of the Components -- The Travertine Fabric -- Morphology and Facies -- Limestone Solution, Groundwater and Spring Emergence -- Chemical Composition of Source Waters -- Mineralogy and Elemental Composition -- Stable Isotopes -- Organisms Associated with Travertine -- Deposition Processes -- Travertine Dating -- Palaeobiology and Biostratigraphy of Quaternary Travertines -- Climate, Man a…