The Caves of Burnsville Cove, Virginia Fifty Years of Exploration and Science /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: White, William B. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Cave and Karst Systems of the World,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Hydrogeology.; Physical geography.; Nature.; Environment.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Earth Sciences.; Physical Geography.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.; Popular Science in Nature and Environment.

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...