The Caves of Burnsville Cove, Virginia Fifty Years of Exploration and Science
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham
Springer International Publishing
2015, 2015
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2015 |
| Series: | Cave and Karst Systems of the World
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | XII, 479 p. 498 illus., 412 illus. in color online resource |
| ISBN: | 9783319143910 |