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This chapter introduces the quantity and distribution of thermal springs in China, Based on the investigation of whole country in 1970s, the total number of thermal springs of whole nation was 3398, including Taiwan Province 94. The most concentrated region of thermal spring is Yunnan and Tibet in the first, Fujian and Guangdong second. The biggest distribution density is Taiwan. The boiling spring only emerges in Tibet, west Sichuan, Southwest Yunnan, and Taiwan, Qinghai is only one.
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Liao, Z. (2018). Thermal Springs in China. In: Thermal Springs and Geothermal Energy in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and the Surroundings. Springer Hydrogeology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3485-5_2
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