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Caves and karst of the Greenbrier Valley in West Virginia / William B. White, editor.

White, William B., editor.
2018
GB605.W4
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Title
Caves and karst of the Greenbrier Valley in West Virginia / William B. White, editor.
ISBN
9783319658018 (electronic book)
3319658018 (electronic book)
9783319658001
331965800X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65801-8
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : color illustrations, maps.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-65801-8 doi
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GB605.W4
Dewey Decimal Classification
796.52/509754
Summary
The focus of this book is on the more than 2000 caves of the Greenbrier Valley of West Virginia of which the 14 with lengths greater than 10 km have an aggregate length of 639 km. The major caves form the core part of sub-basins which drain to big springs and ultimately to the Greenbrier River. Individual chapters of this book describe each of the major caves and its associated drainage basin. The caves are formed in the Mississippian Greenbrier Limestone in a setting of undulating gentle folds. Fractures, lineaments and confining layers within the limestone are the main controlling factors. The caves underlie an extensive sinkhole plain which may relate to a major erosion surface. The caves are habitat for both aquatic and terrestrial organisms which are cataloged and described as are the paleontological remains found in some of the caves. The sinkhole plain of the Greenbrier karst and the underlying complex of cave systems are the end result of at least a ten million year history of landscape evolution which can be traced through the evolving sequence of cave passages and which is described in this book.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed November 28, 2017).
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White, William B., editor.
Series
Cave and karst systems of the world.
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Print version: 9783319658001
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1. The Greenbrier karst / William B. White
2. Geology of the Greenbrier Valley / William B. White
3. Hydrology of the Greenbrier karst / William K. Jones
4. Karst geomorphology / William B. White and Elizabeth L. White
5. The exploration history of the Greenbrier Valley caves / George Dasher
6. The Swago Creek Basin / William B. White, Gary D. Storrick and Mark J. Johnsson
7. The Little Levels and the Hills Creek Basin / William B. White
8. The Friars Hole System / Douglas M. Medville and Stephen R.H. Worthington
9. Caves, karst, and science in the Buckeye Creek Cave watershed / Gregory S. Springer
10. The Culverson Creek Cave System / Philip C. Lucas
11. The contact caves of central Greenbrier County / William M. Balfour
12. Hydrology of the Sinking Creek/Muddy Creek karst basin / William K. Jones and William M. Balfour
13. Organ Cave / Raymond Cole
14. Caves of the Dickson Spring basin, Monroe County / William K. Jones
15. Windy Mouth Cave / David A. Shank, Megan Curry Fucci and Ira D. Sasowsky
16. Scott Hollow Cave / Stacey B. Lane, Melisa R. Bishop, Michael J. Dore and Ira D. Sasowsky
17. The Laurel Creek basin and Greenville Saltpeter Cave / William B. White
18. Terrestrial fauna in the Greenbrier karst / David C. Culver and Daniel W. Fong
19. The subterranean aquatic fauna of the Greenbrier karst / Daniel W. Fong and David C. Culver
20. Pleistocene vertebrates from Greenbrier Valley caves / E. Ray Garton and Frederick V. Grady.

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