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Category : Speleology
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Nittany Grotto Newsletter
Author: Bulletin G.
Author: MAR Bulletin
Author: Pennsylvania Caves and Other Rocky Roadside Wonders
Author: Kevin Joseph PatrickPublisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811726320
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A travel guide with roadside history of Pennsylvania's nice commercial caves and other geological wonders.
NSS NEWS
Author: The Caves of Burnsville Cove, Virginia
Author: William B. WhitePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319143913
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
This book highlights some of the most difficult and persistent exploration ever undertaken in the United States – in Burnsville Cove, a small limestone valley in west-central Virginia – while at the same time reviewing the scientific discoveries made in the area’s 116 km of caves in the course of 50 years. Overall, the book offers a unique combination of exploration and science by a conservation organization specifically dedicated to the preservation and study of the caves.
Bulletin
Author: NSS Bulletin
Author: Studies of Cave Sediments
Author: Ira D. SasowskyPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1441991182
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
John E. Mylroie and Ira D. Sasowsky' Caves occupy incongruous positions in both our culture and our science. The oldest records of modem human culture are the vivid cave paintings from southern France and northern Spain, which are in some cases more than 30,000 years old (Chauvet, et ai, 1996). Yet, to call someone a "caveman" is to declare them primitive and ignorant. Caves, being cryptic and mysterious, occupied important roles in many cultures. For example, Greece, a country with abundant karst, had the oracle at Delphi and Hades the god of death working from caves. People are both drawn to and mortified by caves. Written records ofcave exploration exist from as early as 852 BC (Shaw, 1992). In the decade of the 1920's, which was rich in news events, the second biggest story (as measured by column inches of newsprint) was the entrapment of Floyd Collins in Sand Cave, Kentucky, USA. This was surpassed only by Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic (Murray and Brucker, 1979).
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