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ISBN 13 : 9780987195531
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (955 download)
Download or read book Jenolan Caves - Highlights of the Show Caves written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photohraphs of the tourist caves at Jenolan Caves
Author : Samuel Cook
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Jenolan Caves written by Samuel Cook and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Hallinan
Publisher : Critical Concepts Press
ISBN 13 : 0987588966
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Jenolan Caves written by Mark Hallinan and published by Critical Concepts Press. This book was released on 2014-09-28 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jenolan Caves, just west of Sydney, on the east coast of Australia, are frequently described as one of the most spectacular and readily accessible limestone cave systems in the world. This richly illustrated book reveals the stories of Jenolan Caves in in a fascinating mixture of historical photographs, informative illustrations, detailed maps, easy to read text, and stunning colour photographs. Each of the show caves is described in detail, including the iconic formations that make each one a treasure-house of crystal. However, not all of the Jenolan wonders are secreted underground. The immediate surrounds of the Caves are replete with abundant wildlife immersed in the uniquely Australian bushland. This book contains 13 details maps, 23 vibrant illustrations, 47 intriguing historical photographs, 199 full colour photos, and 72,000 words of engaging narration, spread over 7 Chapters, 3 Appendices, and extensive Endnotes. Chapter 1. Introduction to Jenolan Caves Chapter 2. Hidden in the Mountains. (Location, rivers, land use, geology, climate, vegetation.) Chapter 3. Caves- Rocks, Water and Time. (Formation of the Caves over the last 416 million years.) Chapter 4. Cave Formations- Speleothems (How the great variety of cave formations come about.) Chapter 5. Experiencing the Caves Over Time. (Aboriginal and European discovery and use of the Caves.) Chapter 6. The Show Caves of Jenolan. Chapter 7. The Jenolan Surrounds. (Flora and Fauna, including extinct megafauna, and 'missing' animals.) Appendix 1. Gundungurra Dreamtime Story Appendix 2. Cave Chemistry Appendix 3. Dating Jenolan Caves Suggested Further Reading Endnotes
Author : John Gunn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135455082
Total Pages : 1971 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Caves and Karst Science written by John Gunn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 1971 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Caves and Karst Science contains 350 alphabetically arranged entries. The topics include cave and karst geoscience, cave archaeology and human use of caves, art in caves, hydrology and groundwater, cave and karst history, and conservation and management. The Encyclopedia is extensively illustrated with photographs, maps, diagrams, and tables, and has thematic content lists and a comprehensive index to facilitate searching and browsing.
Author : Akira Katase
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 981454499X
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Radon And Thoron In The Human Environment - Proceedings Of The 7th Tohwa Univ International Symposium written by Akira Katase and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1998-09-29 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Douglas Reichert Powell
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469638649
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Endless Caverns written by Douglas Reichert Powell and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For generations, enterprising people in the southern Appalachians have turned the region's extensive network of caves into a strange, fascinating genre of tourist attraction. Visitors pay admission to take a tour deep underground, learning a little about history and geology while puzzling over lit-up rock formations said to resemble anything from Niagara Falls to the Capitol dome. Then off go the lights, enveloping the travelers in total darkness--until the guide flips them back on and welcomes folks back into the safety of the inevitable gift shop. Show caves, as Douglas Reichert Powell explains in Endless Caverns, are at once predictable and astonishing, ancient and modern, eerie and sentimental. Their story sparks memories of a fleeting cool moment deep underground during a hot summer vacation, capturing in microcosm the history and culture of a region where a deeply rooted sense of place collides with constant change. Reichert Powell takes readers along on his journey through the past and present of Appalachia's show caves, highlighting the characters who have owned and operated them, the ways the attractions have developed and changed over the years, and the odd intrigue that still leads people to buy their ticket and head underground. Tourist tastes may shift as interstates whisk travelers past the backroads and on to trendier destinations, but the show cave--like Appalachia itself--endures.
Author : John Gunn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135455090
Total Pages : 1970 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Caves and Karst Science written by John Gunn and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 1970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Caves and Karst Science contains 350 alphabetically arranged entries. The topics include cave and karst geoscience, cave archaeology and human use of caves, art in caves, hydrology and groundwater, cave and karst history, and conservation and management. The Encyclopedia is extensively illustrated with photographs, maps, diagrams, and tables, and has thematic content lists and a comprehensive index to facilitate searching and browsing.
Author : Samuel Cook
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Jenolan Caves written by Samuel Cook and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-04 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jenolan Caves contain some of the most remarkable and beautiful objects in Australian wonderland. They are formed in a limestone "dyke," surrounded by magnificent scenery, and hide in their dark recesses natural phenomena of rare interest to the geologist, as well as of pleasurable contemplation by non-scientific visitors; while in and about them the moralist may find "—— tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,Sermons in stones, and good in everything." To see these caves once is to create a lifelong memory. The pink and the white terraces of New Zealand, which before the recent eruptions attracted so many tourists, did not excel in splendour the caves at Jenolan. But it is common for people to go abroad to admire less interesting things than are to be found within easy distance of their starting point, and which, if they were a thousand miles away, would probably be regarded as worthy of a special pilgrimage. There are persons living two or three leagues from the caves who have never seen them, and who, if they embraced the opportunity for inspection, would possibly regard them with the kind of wonder with which they would gaze upon the transformation scene at a pantomime. And yet the most frequent entry in the visitors' book is that the caves are "grand beyond expectation," and in some of their principal features "indescribably beautiful."
Author : J.P. McLaughlin
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080457916
Total Pages : 1216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Natural Radiation Environment VII written by J.P. McLaughlin and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2005-03-30 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Natural Radiation Environment Symposium (NRE VII), the Seventh in the NRE series, which commenced forty years ago in 1963 at Rice University Texas, was held in Rhodes (Greece) in May 2002. During the intervening four decades the research work presented at these NRE Symposia has contributed to a deeper understanding of natural radiation and in particular of its contribution to human radiation exposures.It is clear from the quality and diversity of the 143 papers in this volume of Radioactivity in the Environment series that the study of the natural radiation environment is an active and continually expanding field of research. The papers in this volume fall into a number of main and topical research areas namely: - the measurement and behaviour of natural radionuclides in the environment - cosmic radiation measurement and dosimetry - the external penetrating radiation field at ground level - TENR (Technologically Enhanced Natural Radiation) and NORM (Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials) studies - assessment of the health effects of radon - regulatory aspects of natural radiation exposuresIn these papers the results of many new surveys of natural radionuclide levels in the environment and of improved methods of detection are described. While some of the natural radiation sources investigated are unmodified by human activity, many accounts are given here of exposures to natural sources which have been enhanced by technology. Such TENR and NORM exposures are shown to range from activities such as mining, oil and gas exploitation, the use of industrial by-products as building materials, to space travel to name but a few. In several cases quite high doses to some individuals are shown to occur. Accounts are given here of methods to prevent and reduce exposures to such sources.
Author : Elery Hamilton-Smith
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 9780868405957
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Beneath the Surface written by Elery Hamilton-Smith and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caves are exciting places to visit, whether you are a tourist, a sporting caver or a scientist in one of the many disciplines which use caves as natural laboratories. This book comprehensively reviews what we presently know about Australia's caves including the varieties of cave types and how they form, cave fauna, fossils, Aboriginal relics and decorations in caves, and a history of cave exploration and cave science in Australia.
Author : Philip E. van Beynen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400712073
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Karst Management written by Philip E. van Beynen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing specifically on the management of karst environments, this volume draws together the world’s leading karst experts to provide a vital source for the study and management of this unique physical setting. Although karst landscapes cover 12% of the Earth’s terrain and provide 25% of the world’s drinking water, the resource management of karst environments has only previously received indirect attention. Through a comprehensive approach, Karst Management focuses on engineering issues associated with surface karst such as quarries, dams, and agriculture, subsurface topics such as the management of groundwater, show caves, cave biota, and geo-archaeology projects. Chapters that focus on karst as an integrated system look at IUCN World Heritage sites, national parks, policy and regulation, measuring systematic disturbance, information management, and public environmental education. The text incorporates the most up-to-date research from leading karst scientists. This volume provides important perspectives for university students, educators, geoengineers, resource managers, and planners who are interested in or work with this unique physical landscape.
Author : Samuel Cook
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465610294
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (656 download)
Download or read book The Jenolan Caves: An Excursion in Australian Wonderland written by Samuel Cook and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of these caves was discovered in 1841 by James Whalan, who lived on the Fish River, near what is now the Tarana Railway Station. Having been robbed by a man named McEwan, he accompanied a police officer in search of the desperado, and tracked him to the romantic spot which forms the centre of the cave reserve, where he was captured. It is possible that some of these caves were known previously to outlaws, who found in them a secure and convenient hiding-place when hotly pursued. But the visit of Whalan on the occasion of the capture of McEwan first brought them into public notice. The name of the bush-ranger is given to the creek which plays an important part in connection with the caves. One of the principal features received its name from the captor, and another—the Bow Cave—is called after some stolen bullock-bows found therein. They were then known as the "Fish River Caves," or as the "Binda Caves." They were called the Fish River Caves because they were in what was then regarded as the "Fish River District," and not very far from the Fish River post-office. They were called the "Binda Caves" after a station about nine miles distant to the northward. And so they were indifferently known until the month of August, 1884, when their designation was officially changed to "Jenolan"—that being the name given by Sir Thomas Mitchell (Surveyor-General of New South Wales) to the mountain from which is named the parish within which the caves are situated. The change of nomenclature was recommended on the ground that the then existing names were infelicitous and misleading,—the caves being not upon the Fish River, but upon a different watershed, separated from it by the main dividing range of the colony. The time was considered appropriate for remedying the mistake, because a map of the parish of Jenolan was then in course of preparation, and would shortly be lithographed and issued to the public. The official correspondence on this subject discloses the fact that "Binda" was first thought of as a good official name, and then "Bindo;" but the former was found to be the name of a post town between Yass and Goulburn, and the latter the name of a village and a mountain nine miles north of the caves, and, like the Fish River, on the west side of the dividing range.
Author : John Webb
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303124267X
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)
Download or read book Australian Caves and Karst Systems written by John Webb and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, part of the series Cave and Karst Systems of the World, begins with a review of the interaction between people and caves in Australia (including conservation), followed by descriptions of the spectacular cave diving sites, before comprehensively covering all the major carbonate and noncarbonate karst areas, subdivided by rock type and region, and including the origin of the caves. This is followed by broad overviews of cave minerals and speleothems, cave biology and cave fossils. Each section was written by one or more specialists in the topic and is illustrated by clear diagrams and superb colour photos. The book emphasises the unique aspects of the Australian karst, including the variability in the age of the caves (very old to very young) and the impact of isolation on the stygofauna, as well as the vertebrate fossils preserved in the caves. Written in an easy-to-read style, the book is a primary reference guide to Australian karst and represents a valuable asset for anyone interested in the topic, not only cavers and academics.
Author : Derrick Ian Stone
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643106901
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Walks, Tracks & Trails of New South Wales written by Derrick Ian Stone and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2012 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Each location is presented on facing pages where possible, so that text and maps can be read without turning pages * Photography has been taken in conditions and standards that walkers and riders will experience along the routes * Most of the routes chosen do not require specialist navigation or bushcraft skills For the first time in a single volume, this book brings together more than 140 of the best walks, tracks or trails in New South Wales, which can be walked by the moderately fit individual. They are located in national parks, coastal parks, state forests, conservation reserves, historic parks and local government and public easements. Other routes follow state highways, minor roads, coastal cliffs, old gold routes, or pass bushranger haunts and back roads linking towns and historical features. Most routes do not require specialist navigation or bushcraft skills, and vary in length from a 45-minute stroll to a 4-day, 65-kilometre camping trip. Walks, Tracks and Trails of New South Wales highlights the best the state has to offer, from an outback ghost town and ancient lake beds, to Australia's highest mountain, coastal environments and World Heritage rainforests. Easy-to-interpret maps are included to help you navigate, and the book's size makes it convenient to bring with you on your adventures.
Author : David Shaw Gillieson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119455626
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)
Download or read book Caves written by David Shaw Gillieson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People have been interested in caves for a very long time. Our distant ancestors used them for shelter, as sources of water, and as places in which to conduct essential rituals. They adorned their walls with quite sophisticated artwork depicting both their existential and spiritual concerns. Caves feature in our mythology, they are used as places of worship in many cultures, and they are used throughout the world as places in which to store prized foodstuffs and wine. For at least two hundred years they have attracted scientists, artists, photographers, and recreational cavers. This book aims examines how caves form, the light they shed on past environments and climates, and the values, both environmental and cultural, that they provide to humanity. This second edition of Caves: Processes, Development, and Management is a welcome revision of the author’s earlier treatment released over twenty years ago. It has been updated, significantly expanded, and largely rewritten. The intervening years have seen a dramatic increase in karst and cave research globally, with significant advances in our understanding of fundamental processes, in our ability to extract proxy climatic and environmental data from cave deposits, and in our understanding of the breadth of cave values and as a result the complexity of their management needs. This new edition adopts a broad international perspective in the research examples used and the cited literature, and has actively sought out material from the tropical world and the southern continents, thus avoiding the European and North American bias frequently found in speleological publications. Caves: Processes, Development, and Management, Second Edition, is organised into four sections. In the first section, contemporary processes of cave formation are examined. The second section of the book deals with past processes and their physical manifestation. In the third section, the use of caves by various organisms from bacteria to humans is explored. The final section of the book reviews our changing approaches to cave management and to catchment management on karst terrains. The book will be of use to anyone who is interested in caves and karst, or who wants to understand about cave formation, development, values and management.
Author : Alexander Hume Ford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Mid-Pacific Magazine ... written by Alexander Hume Ford and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Hume Ford
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
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Download or read book Mid-Pacific Magazine written by Alexander Hume Ford and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
