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| left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo....Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis...nitrates extracted from cave earths to make saltpeter, at Nicojack Cave in Marion County, then nitromagnesite...zugshunstite-(Ce) were discovered at Alum Bluff Cave in Sevier County (Coskren and Lauf 2000). The following index |
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| NO. 4 GEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF CONFEDERATE SALTPETER CAVE OPERATIONS IN WESTERN VIRGINIA Robert C. Whisonant...of saltpetercaves, the South built a first-rate niter and gunpowderindustry almost fkom the groundup....199th; 1997; 1998;2000), looks at the geology of cave niter deposits, and the use of this invaluable strategicmaterialto...gunpowder was potassium nitrate, derived fiom niter or saltpeter as it was called (Figure 1). Each powder...powder grain contained about 75 per cent niter, together with charcoal (15 percent) and sulfur (10 percent) |
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| nitrate deposits_________ _-_.-_________._____ _ Cave deposits... .. __________ _____________________...___ ____.__._ Lawrence County.. ___ ________________ ________ Winston County... _.__ _______________________..._____________________________ Cochise County _______ _ _________ ___ ____ Coconino County..... _________________________________...._ ._ Greenlee County Pinal County __ ._ .. _____________ ________ Santa Cruz County _ --_-________---___-_---_..._.__..________ Yavapai County..____________________________________ Arkansas __________________________________ |
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| more than 6,200 recorded caves; and To the show cave developers of Missouri, who have made it possible...underground and enjoy the won¬ ders and curiosities of the Cave State. \ ^* i. r♦ • t «■I; %* Ji i * I ...Prehistoric Times.6 j. Spooky Burials.12 4. Saltpeter and Gunpowder.18 5. Bear Hunting.25 6. Farm and...77 13. Show Caves 84 X Contents 14. Cave Men and Cave Women.96 15. Changing Attitudes .108 16...The Mystique of Caves.119 Appendix: The Twelve Cave Regions of Missouri .125 For More Reading .143 Index |
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| C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...updated “check list” just alluded to, (2) a county-by-county listing of the minerals, and (3) resumes of...Parisite Bastnaesite Ancylite Checklist Nitrates Niter Nitrocalcite Sulfates Thenardite Barite Cclestitc...(Haydcnitc) 9 Virginia Mineral Localities by County This list is included for possible aid in planning...listed only* if localities arc given for them. The county lists do not include com mon rock-making materials |
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| NITRATES IN CAVE EARTHS A NEWtheory of the origin of nitrates in cave earths has been recently propounded...bacteria in the soil above, and that they enter the cave with the seepage through the roof and are deposited...dryer parts of the cave. In other words the dry galleries and chambers of a cave serve as a gigantic...statement that bats never go far from the mouth of the cave, while many analyses (not quoted) show that the...are distributed through the dry chambers of the cave. This would seem to be decisive if rigorously verified |
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| species of salts found in Searles Lake San Bernardino County, California, 282 268 269 Fish Lake, 268 Death...Lazulite, 354 Apatite, Phosphorites, 354 Nitrates, 354 Niter, 354 Fluorides, 354 Borates, 355 Colemanite, 355...Sylvite NaCl KC1 CaS0 4 Anhydrite Thenardite Soda Niter 3 Hemi-hydrates are also known, such as the common...Sulphate -nitrates: Bengal saltpeter or potash niter Chile saltpeter or soda niter Nitrobarite (Ba(NO 3 )...lagoon, Salina Grandes (Argentina). Bengal Saltpeter. See Saltpeter. Bischofite. MgCl 2 .6H 2 O; monoclinic; |
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| of the many beautiful views WEST BY B. I Saltpeter Cave, which has a peculiar history, is given with...than any of on another page. VIRGINIA. From this cave the confederate the many manufacturing establishments...establishments which have I government obtained niter for use in manufacturing gunpowder, and it was guarded...New River near Thermal, West Virginia, on the the cave the little stream flows which runs under Natural...Philadelphia, and is there regarded as the standard. SALTPETER CAVE, NEAR NATURAL BRIDGE, VA. The only views we |
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| Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...Bentley provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium...pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...property—Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8...[University of Calgary] at 09:55 07 August 2017 Barrow County Arnold mine—1.6 km northeast of Statham, near the |
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| evolution in other light-insulated environments Cave-adaptive evolution in nonanimal clades Bibliography...Introduction Behavioral evolution in the cave—how behaviors differ between cave species and their epigean relatives...relatives How and why do behaviors evolve in the cave? Bibliography 24 24 28 32 5. Adaptation: Morphological...William K. Jones and Lee F. Elliott Introduction Cave art in Europe Bibliography Rudi Verovnik and Marjeta...Konec Development of troglomorphies Postojna-planina cave system Broader view Asellus kosswigi Continental |
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| ...........................................19 Arkansas ................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |
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| ...........................................19 Arkansas ................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |
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| COVER PHOTO : Gold nugget from Dukes Creek, White County, weight 5 oz., 12 dwt., approx. 2x. BACK COVER...approx. 1.5x. Lower left - Goethite from Pulaski County, approx. lx. Right - Magnetite crystal face showing.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Niter ............................................................................................ 170 County Index ...........................................from Washington and Bleck ley counties to Irwin county. Some minerals described herein have never been |
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| the full name, as Hardinsburg Formation, Wyandotte Cave, or Teays Valley, indicates that the name refers...under the mineral resource or resources and the county or locality discussed. If the mineral or rock has...papers concerning gold in Brown County, look under: Gold Brown County 10 ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF...OF INDIAN A GEOLOG Y or under: Brown County gold Under these headings will be found authors and dates;...1879d. This entry indicates that gold in Brown County was referred to in a paper by Collett in 1875 and |
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| Cave and Karst Systems of the World Gheorghe M. L. Ponta Bogdan P. Onac Editors Cave and Karst Systems...Romania Cave and Karst Systems of the World Series editor James W. LaMoreaux, Tuscaloosa, USA More information...com/series/11987 Gheorghe M. L. Ponta Bogdan P. Onac Editors Cave and Karst Systems of Romania 123 Editors Gheorghe...Tuscaloosa, AL USA Bogdan P. Onac School of Geosciences University of South Florida Tampa, FL USA and “Emil...Romania ISSN 2364-4591 ISSN 2364-4605 (electronic) Cave and Karst Systems of the World ISBN 978-3-319-90745-1 |
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| Hamilton-Smith, Chair IUCN/WCPA Working Group on Cave and Karst Protection Alexander Klimchouk, Institute...the 100 m deep “Lost World” entrance to Mangapu Cave, Waitomo, New Zealand. (Photo by John Gunn) Stalactites...and stalagmites in “Castle Grotto”, Hollow Hill Cave, Waitomo, New Zealand. (Photo by John Gunn) A fine...(Photo by John Gunn) Classic hand silhouettes in the cave of Ujung Bulo in Sulawesi, Indonesia. (Photo by...(continent, country, region, or individual site or cave) reflecting the Advisory Board’s opinions as to |
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| H. William Earths. Cavern in Nitrates of Origin County, Calcareous Concretions of Kettle Point, Lambton...liminary Report on the Copper-bearing Rocks of Douglas County, Wisconsin, by Ulysses Lower Huronian Sherman...Vertebrates from the Permian Bone Bed of Vermilion County, Illinois. E. C. Case - . . .--_.... Some... The dunite from syenites. Kentucky Elliott county, s is so low and so high in magnesia as to...of 1892. DiLLER : The Peridotite of Elliott County, Ky. Bull. No. 38, U. S. Geol. Survey, pp |
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| shez} abyssal See pluton1c ( a'b1s al 1 1 abyssal cave See submarrne fan / .'J b1s al 'kav) abyssal tan...needle- or hairl 1ke crystals on the roof or wall of a cave { 'an · th.3,dit} 14 antistress mineral anthoinite...apatile / ,ar a'zó,nit) Arkansas stone A vanety of novaculite quarr1ed in Arkansas { 'ar· kan,s6 ,ston }...hól) blowing cave A cave with an alternatrng a1r movement Also known as breathing cave. { :bló 11) :kav)...ª forrnation of calc1um carbonate occurnng in a cave Also known as clustente { ba tre,óicl 1 bottom 1 |
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| Margraff, for example, compared sodium nitrate and saltpeter, noting that the crystals of the two substances...and those of the fourth, epsomite and boracite. Saltpeter was a unique species of the first genus of the...have eight similar surfaces and included topaz, niter, and aragonite as examples. But in retaining mutually...discovered under the surface of the earth in Iredell County, North Carolina. Some specimens of rock from this...Meteoric Stones Which Fell from the Atmosphere, in the County of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, on the 14th |
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| Arizona MA Massachusetts RI Rhode Island AR Arkansas MI SC South Carolina CA California MN Minnesota...3 to 4.9 m) wide in the Albert Shale of Albert County, NB, Can. It is partly soluble in turpentine, but...gelatin dynamite See: gelatin dynamite ammonia niter Ammonium nitrate, NH4 NO3 ; nitrammite. Also spelled...iron sulfides, and antimony in a vein in Yavapai County, AZ. AGI d. A hypabyssal rock with 80% quartz,...classification). AGI Arkansas diamond A diamond from Murfreesboro, AR. Arkansas stone A variety of novaculite |
