Download or read book The Geology and Physiography of the Mammoth Cave National Park written by Armin Kohl Lobeck and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 69 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 275 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 Making Connections written by and published by . This book was released on 2000* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mammoth Cave National Park offers curriculum guides and lessons for teachers wishing to use park resources as a teaching tool. This curriculum guide contains one for grades Primary 1-4, Intermediate grades 4-5, Middle grades 6-8 and general information. The guides cover many topics relating to nature and science in Mammoth Cave Park including trees, birds, seasons, caves, the environment, fossils, weathering and erosion.

Download or read book A Geological Guide to Mammoth Cave National Park written by Arthur N. Palmer and published by Cave Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mammoth Cave written by David Rains Wallace and published by Department of Interior. This book was released on 2003 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Geology of the Mammoth Cave National Park Area written by Elizabeth Ann Livesay and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Physiographic and Stratigraphic Profile in Kentucky Lexington to the Mammoth Cave Region written by Preston McGrain and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mammoth Cave National Park written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Geology of Caves written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Historical and Descriptive Narrative of the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky written by William Stump Forwood and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Longest Cave written by Roger W. Brucker and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1987-02-16 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1925 the geological connection between Flint Ridge and Mammoth Cave was proved when dye placed in a Flint Ridge spring showed up in Echo River at Mammoth Cave. That tantalizing swirl of dye confirmed speculations that wereto tempt more than 650cavers over half a century with the thrill of being the first to make human passage of the cave connection. Roger Brucker and Richard Watson tell not only of their own twenty-year effort to complete the link but the stories of many others who worked their way through mud-choked crawlways less than a foot high only to find impenetrable blockages. Floyd Collins died a grisly death in nearby Sand Cave in1925, after being trapped there for 15 days. The wide press coverage of the rescue efforts stirred the imagination of the public and his body was on macabre display in a glass-topped coffin in Crystal Cave into the 1940s. Agents of a rival cave owner once even stole his corpse, which was recovered and still is in a coffin in the cave. Modern cavers still have a word with Floyd as they start their downward treks. Brucker and Watson joined the parade of cavers who propelled themselves by wiggling kneecaps, elbows, and toes through quarter-mile long crawlways, clinging by fingertips and boot toes across mud-slick walls, over bottomless pits, into gurgling streams beneath stone ceilings that descend to water level, down crumbling crevices and up mountainous rockfalls, into wondrous domed halls, and straight ahead into a blackness intensified rather than dispelled by the carbide lamps on their helmets. Over two decades they explored the passages with others who sought the final connection as vigorously as themselves. Pat Crowther, a young mother of two, joined them and because of her thinness became the member of the crew to go first into places no human had ever gone before. In that role, in July 1972, she wiggled her way through the Tight Spot and found the route that would link the Flint Ridge and Mammoth Cave systems into one cave extending 144.4 miles through the Kentucky limestone. In a new afterword to this edition the authors summarize the subsequent explorations that have more than doubled the established length of the cave system. Based upon geological evidence, the authors predict that new discoveries will add another 200 miles to the length of the world’s longest cave, making it over 500 miles long.

Download or read book Geology of National Parks written by Ann G. Harris and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hydrology of the Cavernous Limestones of the Mammoth Cave Area Kentucky written by Richmond Flint Brown and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Geology of the Mammoth Cave National Park Area written by Anne Livesay and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Series VI written by Kentucky Geological Survey and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Itinerary Geology of the Mammoth Cave Region Barren Edmonson and Hart Counties Kentucky written by Geological Society of Kentucky and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Itinerary Geologic Features of the Mississippian Plateaus in the Mammoth Cave and Elizabethtown Areas Kentucky written by Geological Society of Kentucky and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: