Download or read book Exploring American Caves written by Franklin Folsom and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Exploring American Caves their History Geology Lore and Location written by Franklin Folsom and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Exploring American Caves written by Franklin Folsom and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Celebrated American Caverns Especially Mammoth Wyandot and Luray written by Horace Carter Hovey and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Caves and Caving written by William R. Halliday and published by Harpercollins. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of practical hints on the proper equipment and procedures for spelunking in North America

Download or read book Gurnee Guide to American Caves written by Russell H. Gurnee and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mammoth Cave written by Horton H. Hobbs III and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the science and beauty of Mammoth Cave, the world's longest cave, which has played an important role in the natural sciences. It offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary treatment of the cave, combining insights from leading experts in fields ranging from archeology and cultural history to life science and geosciences. The first animals specialized for cave life in North America, including beetles, spiders, crayfish, and fish, were discovered in Mammoth Cave in the 1840s. It has also been used and explored by humans, including Native Americans, who mined its sulfate minerals and later African-American slaves, who made a map of the cave. More recent stories include 'wars' between commercial cave owners, epic exploration trips by modern cave explorers, and of course tourism. The first section of the book is an extensive description including maps and photos of the cave, its basic structural pattern, and how it relates to the surface landscape. The second section covers the human history of utilization and exploration of the cave, including mining, tourism, and medical experiments. Cave science is the topic of the third section, including geology, hydrology, mineralogy, climatology, paleontology, ecology, biodiversity, and microbiology. The fourth section looks to the future, with an overview of environmental issues facing Mammoth Cave managers. The book is intended for anyone interested in caves in general and Mammoth Cave in particular, experts in one discipline seeking information about other areas, and researchers and students interested in the many avenues of pursuit possible in Mammoth Cave.

Download or read book Caves written by Michael Ray Taylor and published by National Geographic. This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes the reader on a tour of different types of caves, including Greenland, the Yucatan Peninsula, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and the American Southwest, and explains the creatures that live there and the techniques explorers use.

Download or read book Celebrated American Caverns Especially Mammoth Wyandot and Luray Together with Historical Scientific and Descriptive Notices of Caves and Grotto written by Horace Carter Hovey and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xiv. other american caverns. Judges' Cave--Rimsbury Caverns--Moodus Xoises--Pictured Cave of La Crosse--Pickett's Cave, or the Cave of the Winds--Cave of Cacahuaniilpa--Canadian Caverns--Cliff-Dwellers--Conclusion. There are hundreds of imperfectly explored caves concealed amid the forests and crags of sparsely inhabited regions in the Western and Southern States. It is obviously impracticable to mention, however, every one that may even have acquired local celebrity. Published accounts are frequently too meager to be interesting, or else are exaggerated beyond belief. Hence it is difficult to obtain reliable data concerning some that are really noteworthy. The author takes this opportunity to say that he will gladly welcome information as to any portion of subterranean America, and may make use of it in some future publication. It is particularly desirable to collect facts concerning the various forms of cavern life, and those bearing on the manners and customs of the ancient lords of the soil. Many of the most interesting problems of geology and arehscology are yet to be solved by secrets now locked up in the bosom of unexplored caverns. It remains, in this concluding chapter, to group together accounts of several caves, alike merely in not having been already described in these pages. the judges' cave. The Judges' Cave, near New Haven, Conn., may properly be mentioned among celebrated American caverns; although, strictly, it is not a cave, but merely a shelter among some huge fragments of trap rock. Here, however, from May 15th to August 19th, 1601, Cols. Whalley and Goffe, two of the Regicides who once sat in judgment on King Charles L, and whom British spies were hunting to the death, found a safe refuge. The snot is a...

Download or read book Cave Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands written by David H. Dye and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patty Jo Watson's prolific career began in the early 1950s as an energetic graduate student at the University of Chicago and culminated with her induction into the National Academy of Sciences and subsequent retirement from Washington University in 2003. During that time her groundbreaking research impacted multiple fields within the discipline of archaeology, but her astonishing research into the underground caves of the eastern United States recognizes her as one of the world's leading experts on cave archaeology. In honor of Dr. Watson and her monumental achievements in the field, twenty-two established scholars present in this volume new and insightful research into prehistoric and historic use of southeastern dark zones. Cave Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands, edited by David H. Dye, explores how prehistoric and historic peoples utilized caves as a means to further their economic growth and represent cultural values within their societies. The essays range in topics from early gypsum mining to rare American Indian cave art, from historic saltpeter extraction to current archaeobotanical and paleofecal research. Dye and the contributors contend that studies of deep zone caves reveal multiple insights into the values, beliefs, and cultural lifeways of ancient and historic peoples. In addition to presenting new research in the field, contributors also place particular emphasis on Dr. Watson's influential cave research and how it has molded their own work. The essays convey a sense of wonder at the unique and sometimes harrowing world of caves, and readers will get a sense of why Native Americans regarded the Underworld or Beneathworld as a supernatural realm to be tread upon with great respect and caution. This volume of uniformly excellent essays will no doubt be a lantern that sheds light onto the importance of studying and understanding the all too secret world of underground caves. David H. Dye is professor of archaeology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Memphis and a former student of Patty Jo Watson's. He is author of Cycles of Violence: An Archaeology of Peace and War in Native Eastern North American, coeditor, with Richard J. Chacon, of The Taking and Displaying of Human Body Parts as Trophies by Amerindians, and, with Cheryl Anne Cox, of Towns and Temples Along the Mississippi.

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Download or read book Exploring American History written by Tom Lansford and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans are fond of describing their country as a young nation. Though there is much in that description that is true, it should not obscure the richness and variety of the nations pasta past that provides the indispensable key to understanding the nations present. This completely new reference set examines in detail the formative stages of Americas essential past from European settlement of the Western Hemisphere and the displacement of indigenous peoples to the birth of the United States and its astonishing growth, in both population and territory, from a modest confederation of thirteen independent states.

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Download or read book Exploring Alabama Caves written by Thomas W. Daniel and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Visiting American Caves written by Howard N. Sloane and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Howe Caverns and Secret Caverns.

Download or read book Exploring the Endless Caverns of New Market Virginia in the Heart of the Shenandoah Valley written by Endless Caverns, inc., New Market, Va and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Celebrated American Caverns written by Horace Carter Hovey and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.