Caves and karst of the Greenbrier Valley in West Virginia /

Caves and karst of the Greenbrier Valley in West Virginia /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]
Description:1 online resource : color illustrations, maps
Language:English
Series:Cave and karst systems of the world
Cave and karst systems of the world.
Subject:
Caves -- West Virginia.
Karst -- West Virginia.
Caves.
Karst.
Greenbrier River Valley (W. Va.)
West Virginia.
West Virginia -- Greenbrier River Valley.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11542480
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Other authors / contributors:White, William B. (William Blaine), 1934- editor.
ISBN:9783319658018
3319658018
9783319658001
331965800X
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references at chapter ends.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 28, 2017).
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.
Other form:Printed edition: 9783319658001
Standard no.:10.1007/978-3-319-65801-8
Table of Contents:
  • The Greenbrier karst / William B. White
  • Geology of the Greenbrier Valley / William B. White
  • Hydrology of the Greenbrier karst / William K. Jones
  • Karst geomorphology / William B. White and Elizabeth L. White
  • The exploration history of the Greenbrier Valley caves / George Dasher
  • The Swago Creek basin / William B. White, Gary D. Storrick and Mark J. Johnsson
  • The Little Levels and the Hills Creek basin / William B. White
  • The Friars Hole system / Douglas M. Medville and Stephen R.H. Worthington
  • Caves, karst, and science in the Buckeye Creek Cave watershed / Gregory S. Springer
  • The Culverson Creek cave system / Philip C. Lucas
  • The contact caves of central Greenbrier County / William M. Balfour
  • Hydrology of the Sinking Creek/Muddy Creek karst basin / William K. Jones and William M. Balfour
  • Organ Cave / Raymond Cole
  • Caves of the Dickson Spring basin, Monroe County / William K. Jones
  • Windy Mouth Cave / David A. Shank, Megan Curry Fucci and Ira D. Sasowsky
  • Scott Hollow Cave / Stacey B. Lane, Melisa R. Bishop, Michael J. Dore and Ira D. Sasowsky
  • The Laurel Creek basin and Greenville Saltpeter Cave / William B. White
  • Terrestrial fauna in the Greenbrier karst / David C. Culver and Daniel W. Fong
  • The subterranean aquatic fauna of the Greenbrier karst / Daniel W. Fong and David C. Culver
  • Pleistocene vertebrates from Greenbrier Valley caves / E. Ray Garton and Frederick V. Grady.

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