Overview
- Contributes to the understanding of cave and karst systems around the world
- Documents some of the most intensive cave explorations ever undertaken in the United States
- Summarizes 50 years of scientific investigations in the Burnsville Cove cave area
- Includes hundreds of color photographs of caves and cave minerals
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Cave and Karst Systems of the World (CAKASYWO)
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About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Caves of Burnsville Cove, Virginia
Book Subtitle: Fifty Years of Exploration and Science
Editors: William B. White
Series Title: Cave and Karst Systems of the World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14391-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-14390-3Published: 05 May 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38544-0Published: 18 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-14391-0Published: 20 April 2015
Series ISSN: 2364-4591
Series E-ISSN: 2364-4605
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 479
Number of Illustrations: 86 b/w illustrations, 412 illustrations in colour
Topics: Hydrogeology, Physical Geography, Geoecology/Natural Processes, Popular Science in Nature and Environment