Glaciation and Speleogenesis Interpretations from the Northeastern U
Focusing on glaciation and speleogenesis in the region of New York and New England, this book serves as an example of a karst region that has experienced large-scale continental glaciation. It reviews the literature on the controls of glaciation on karst
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Max P. Cooper John E. Mylroie
Glaciation and Speleogenesis Interpretations from the Northeastern United States
Cave and Karst Systems of the World
Series editor James W. LaMoreaux, Tuscaloosa, USA
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Max P. Cooper • John E. Mylroie
Glaciation and Speleogenesis Interpretations from the Northeastern United States
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Max P. Cooper Department of Geosciences Mississippi State University Starkville, MS USA
John E. Mylroie Department of Geosciences Mississippi State University Starkville, MS USA
Cave and Karst Systems of the World ISBN 978-3-319-16533-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-16534-9
ISBN 978-3-319-16534-9
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Foreword
John Mylroie’s 1977 dissertation on caves and karst of the Helderberg Plateau in Schoharie County, New York has long been a bible for cave investigators in that area. Now, he and his student Max Cooper—who has investigated maze caves in the northeastern United States—have produced a book which incorporates the many findings from ensuing decades, and which emphasizes the profound effect of glaciation on cave and karst development. Not limited to Schoharie County, this book covers New York and New England—the entire Northeast. Cave studies began in the Northeast in the 1950s, with systematic tabulation of cave and karst features, and initial mapping. This has continued to the present, as new caves are discovered and mapped. But in the 1960s, scientific studies of cave development (speleogenesis) began. Insights from this have resulted in the discovery of major caves like Barrack Zourie and Carthusian caves, Thunder Hole, and Vermonster. Informal digging groups hav
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