@inbook{72189e2095a144c8952cad4491ea1fbb,
title = "The changing Maltese soil environment: evidence from the ancient cart-tracks at San Pawl tat-tarġa, Naxxar",
abstract = "The historic cart ruts of Malta are incised into the underlying bedrock topography. Anomalous relationships between their routeways and the uneven terrain beneath suggest that they originated on a land surface different from that of today. An exposure close to a cart-rut location near Naxxar reveals evidence of limestone terrain development and its role in the evolution of the cart-rut patterns. Specifically, it reveals that cart trackways were most probably superimposed from a soil cover onto an underlying bedrock surface topographically different from the former soil surface. A model is developed demonstrating likely relationships between human activity, soil erosion and trackway evolution leading to the incision of the trackways into the bedrock",
author = "Derek Mottershead and Paul Farres and Alastair Pearson",
year = "2010",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781862392946",
series = "GSL Special Publication",
publisher = "Geological Society of London",
number = "331",
pages = "219--229",
editor = "B. Smith and M. Gomez-Heras and H. Viles and J. Cassar",
booktitle = "Limestone in the Built Environment: Present-Day Challenges for the Preservation of the Past",
address = "United Kingdom",
edition = "331",
}