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The Caves of Burnsville Cove, Virginia

Fifty Years of Exploration and Science

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. William B. White

    1. Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

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  • 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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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Burnsville Cove

    • William B. White
    Pages 1-16

  3. Early Exploration: Breathing and Butler Caves

    • William B. White
    Pages 17-36

  4. BCCS: The Organization

    • Fred L. Wefer, Keith D. Wheeland
    Pages 37-46

  5. Exploration of the Outlet Caves

    • William B. White
    Pages 47-65

  6. The Discovery and Initial Exploration of the Chestnut Ridge Cave System

    • Gregg Clemmer
    Pages 67-77

  7. The Bobcat Camps

    • Gregg Clemmer
    Pages 79-97

  8. Finding the Blarney Stone

    • Gregg Clemmer
    Pages 99-111

  9. Burns, Baby, Burns

    • Tommy Shifflett
    Pages 113-131

  10. Pancakes and the Saga of Our Maple Sugar Digs

    • Gregg Clemmer
    Pages 133-149

  11. Exploration of Barberry Cave and the Construction of Big Bucks Pit

    • Benjamin F. Schwartz, Nevin W. Davis
    Pages 151-166

  12. Caves of the Water Sinks Depression

    • Philip C. Lucas
    Pages 167-203

  13. Helictite Cave

    • Philip C. Lucas
    Pages 205-236

  14. Probing the Wishing Well

    • Nathan Farrar, Philip C. Lucas
    Pages 237-275

  15. The Homestead and Other BCCS Properties

    • Keith D. Wheeland
    Pages 277-287

  16. Scientific Research in Burnsville Cove

    • William B. White
    Pages 289-298

  17. The Geology of Burnsville Cove, Bath and Highland Counties, Virginia

    • Christopher S. Swezey, John T. Haynes, Richard A. Lambert, William B. White, Philip C. Lucas, Christopher P. Garrity
    Pages 299-334

  18. Hydrogeology of Burnsville Cove

    • Nevin W. Davis
    Pages 335-352

  19. Geology of Breathing Cave

    • George H. Deike III
    Pages 353-364

  20. Geology of the Butler Cave—Sinking Creek System

    • William B. White
    Pages 365-384
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

    William B. White

About the editor

Dr. William B. White developed an early interest in caves and karst and started serious caving with an undergraduate summer job at Lincoln Caverns in 1951. In the 1950s he conducted investigations of many caves in central Pennsylvania and the Greenbrier Valley in West Virginia and has continued world-wide karst research projects for fifty years. Dr. White frequently collaborates with his wife, Dr. Elizabeth L. White, on karst hydrology studies and has been the advisor to numerous graduate students working on karst related topics. Dr. White authored numerous research papers and books dealing with karst. He was one of the first researchers in the United States to directly apply the laws of chemistry and physics to explain many of the seemingly mysterious characteristics of karst landforms. His papers on karst related topics cover a remarkably diverse range of specialties including geomorphic studies of karst drainage basins, hydraulics of water flow through limestone caves, kinetics of carbonate dissolution, transport of sediments through caves and the mineralogy of cave formations (speleothems). He is now retired from his dual appointment in the Department of Geosciences and in the Materials Research Laboratory at the Pennsylvania State University.

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