Mammoth Cave and Chappy Corp. honored
A total of 45 miles of new wire was brought into the cave. Six miles of Mammoth Cave tour routes are now lit with economical, environmentally efficient light.
... more here.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Wakulla Springs
Here's a series of seven clips on Wakulla by Chuck Ford featuring the work of the Woodville Karst Plain Project and the Wakulla Watershed Coalition.
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Group preparing for dive through Wakulla, Leon cave system
This weekend, a monumental dive will take place when McKinlay and fellow diver Jarrod Jablonski embark on a 7-mile, seven-hour underwater exploration, entering at Turner Sink on Saturday and emerging in Wakulla Springs on Sunday.
.. more here.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Marengo Cave to be Featured in New Movie
I took this shot of Marengo during the convention. (click for large version)
Shooting at Marengo Cave for “Fire From Below” is expected to take approximately 22 hours for scenes that will comprise approximately 15 minutes of the finished film.
Bill Dever, associate producer of “Fire From Below” said, “Frankly, the caves will be featured so prominently that it's really too bad there’s not an Oscar for best location….Marengo would be a shoe-in.”
... more here.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Saturday, November 03, 2007
‘Holy grail of cavers: Virgil the Turtle’s Greathouse Cave
“It’s obviously glacier created,” Brown said of the cave. “It’s impossible to tell how old the cave actually is. Certainly, the last glacial period, from 10,000 to 1.5 million years ago, had a lot to do with its formation. We think that the clay deposited in the bottom half of the cave may have resulted from sediment that was carried into the cave by glacial melt water. Each band in the clay layer may represent a separate flooding and deposition event. There are a lot of them so this obviously went on for a very long time.
... more here.
Mars caves forged by volcanoes and meteors
The Hawaiian lava cave microbes are particularly fond of those minerals in the caves which are made of rocks that have weathered away by water.
So if there were ever watery times on Mars, lava caves would probably have evidence of them, plus signs of any past life.
... more here.
Seized 'Pot Cave' Goes Up for Auction in Tennessee ... Marijuana Not Included
It would have been more valuable had the home above it not burned a year ago, officials said. The fire was started under suspicious circumstances.
What's left to sell is a 2-mile-long cave with a 20-foot-high ceiling.
... more here.
Monday, August 13, 2007
Volunteers cleaning up bats' home
Workers have found a lot of variety in the trash, from soft-drink cans to a cow skeleton, refrigerators and a 17-foot john boat, along with license plates from as far away as New Jersey.
... full text here.
Monday, August 06, 2007
Maryland sinkhole study rocks geology world
A state-funded study of sinkholes in pockmarked Frederick County has won its author a national award for shaking up assumptions about why the earth sometimes collapses..
... read more here.
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