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Showing 1 to 20 of 383 for “"Cave"”.
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Border Cave
Border Cave was investigated by R.A. Dart in 1934, by H.B.S. Cooke and others in 1941-2, and most recently by the author with the help of various volunteers (see Acknowledgements) over a total period of eleven weeks between late 1970 and mid 1975 (Cooke et al., l945; Beaumont and Boshier, 1972; …
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Evaluation of Cave Programs: Impact on Tourists' Cave Knowledge and Attitudes
… programs designed to inform tourists about the cave ecosystem. A questionnaire, which included twelve knowledge questions and four attitude questions, was designed to measure the effectiveness of interpretive programming of 10 commercial caves in Missouri. Commercial caves are caves that provide …
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Socrates' Simile of the Cave
Socrates has been widely understood as trying to find a master key to the world of Being, which is distinct from the world of appearances. His question is taken to be a request for a universal definition, which holds the key. However, the notions like "the other world" or "the universal definition" …
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Field Test of a Calcite Dissolution Rate Law: Fort’s Funnel Cave, Mammoth Cave National Park
… experiment in Buffalo Creek within Fort’s Funnel Cave, which lies within a pristine, forested catchment of Mammoth Cave National Park. Continuous water chemistry sampling over the same period allowed a time-integrated prediction of the dissolution based on the Plummer et al (1978) expression. …
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An Isotopic Examination of Cave, Spring and Epigean Trophic Structures in Mammoth Cave National Park
<p>AN ISOTOPIC EXAMINATION OF CAVE, SPRING AND EPIGEAN TROPHIC STRUCTURES IN MAMMOTH CAVE NATIONAL PARK</p> <p>Name: Zacchaeus Greg Compson Date: October 15, 2004 Pages: 56</p> <p>Directed by: Philip Lienesch, Doug McElroy, Michael Stokes and Richard Bowker</p> <p>Department of Biology Western …
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Conservation Studies of Insect Cave Faunas in Mammoth Cave National Park and Ghana, West Africa
… term ecological monitoring effort at Mammoth Cave National Park, a blind cave beetle, Neaphaenops tellkampfi, was collected and data on populations trends gathered from September 2005 through December 2006 in Great Onyx Cave. The sex and age of each individual in each of 15 sites were …
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Cave pollen taphonomy in Kurdish Iraq
… involved in pollen transport and deposition in cave environments and the influence of different factors on the composition of the pollen assemblage, with special reference to the problem of the Neanderthal ‘Flower burial’ at Shanidar Cave, Kurdish Iraq. Limited systematic taphonomic work has …
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Late Pleistocene Sciurids from Kokoweef Cave
… the late Pleistocene-early Holocene Kokoweef Cave paleofauna. This fauna was the first documentation of T. minimus, T. palmeri and S. townsendii from the Pleistocene of the Mohave Desert. The 30-ft sedimentary sequence apparently recorded the mid-to late-Wisconsian introduction of S. lateralis …
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Analysis of Mammoth Cave Pre-Park Communities
Before the creation of Mammoth Cave National Park, this area was home to numerous communities, each with a sense of identity. To prepare for the creation of the National Park, all residents living within these communities were relocated, and many of these communities were lost to the passage of …
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Examining factors associated with cave visitor satisfaction
Cave tourism, as a growing niche within the tourism industry, contributes significantly to local economies. Missouri, home to more than 7,500 caves, ranks second among all states in the U.S. regarding the number of recorded wild caves. Missouri caves attract tens of thousands of visitors each year. …
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Renbaan cave : stone tools, settlement and subsistence
… and interprets the results from the Renbaan Cave excavation and situates the site in the context of contemporary Later Stone Age studies in the southwestern Cape. It is designed to complement the research of professor John Parkington. It is argued that settlement and subsistance patterns at …
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Small Mammal Survey of Wind Cave National Park
… provides an indication of biodiversity. Wind Cave National Park (WCNP) is nearly 100 years old, during this time no parkwide small mammal survey has been conducted. The purpose of this research project was to conduct a biodiversity survey of the small mammal community that inhabits WCNP. For …
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Analyzing a 10-Year Cave Drip Record in James Cave, Virginia: Implications for Storage and Recharge in Shallow Appalachian Karst Systems
… source of recharge through the measurement of cave drips allows for a more accurate analysis of recharge timing and mechanisms. In this study, I conducted recession analyses on cave drip hydrographs from a 10-year record (2008-2018) of three drip monitoring stations within James Cave (Pulaski …
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Meiofauna in a chemosynthetic groundwater ecosystem: Movile Cave, Romania
Die 1986 entdeckte Movile-Höhle stellt ein Grundwasserökosystem dar, das eine artenreiche Gemeinschaft von Wirbellosen beherbergt. Jedoch erreicht keinerlei photoautotroph produzierte Nahrung die Höhle, die seit mindestens der letzten Eiszeit vollständig von der Erdoberfläche isoliert ist. …
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Cave air and dripwater variability in Cathedral Caverns, Alabama
… and δ13CCO2) chemistry from within Cathedral Caverns (Grant, AL) was conducted for 12 months (January 2015-December 2015) to better characterize the factors influencing deposition and δ18O chemistry of speleothems within the cave. Cave dripwater (δ18O and δD) isotope values for the Southeast, …
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Mathematical Modeling of Convective Heat Transfer in Mammoth Cave
… changes were made to the entrances of Mammoth Cave and its passages. Today the Historic Entrance to Mammoth Cave is enlarged and the passage just beyond the entrance known as Houchins' Narrows has been cleared of rubble and filled with sediments. These enlargements have resulted in an increase …
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Geoarchaeological Assessment of Horseshoe Cave (24RB1094, Rosebud County, Montana
Horseshoe Cave is located south of Ashland, Montana and at the northern end of the Powder River Basin. Its earliest documented human use and occupation dates to 2,000 years before the present. Evidence of that past use and occupation includes diagnostic bone and stone tools, hearth features and …
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Geoarchaeological Assessment of Horseshoe Cave (24RB1094, Rosebud County, Montana
Horseshoe Cave is located south of Ashland, Montana and at the northern end of the Powder River Basin. Its earliest documented human use and occupation dates to 2,000 years before the present. Evidence of that past use and occupation includes diagnostic bone and stone tools, hearth features and …
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Pleistocene Peccaries from Guy Wilson Cave, Sullivan County, Tennessee.
… Pleistocene Tayassuidae from Guy Wilson Cave within the East Tennessee State University and McClung Museum collections revealed a MNI of 16 <em>Platygonus compressus</em> and 2 <em>Mylohyus</em> from left femora and isolated teeth, respectively. Linkage between upper dentition and species …
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