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An edition of Blue Spring Cave (2010)

Blue Spring Cave

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Blue Spring Cave is Tennessee's longest mapped cave with over 35 miles of surveyed passages. Although it's natural entrance has been known since prehistoric times, only 500 feet of cave had been explored as recently as 1989. In that year a group of cavers pushed a tight, blowing crawlway at the rear of the cave and discovered miles and miles of passages. Exploration still continues as this book goes to press.

Follow along with the modern explorers as they describe their exploration of this underground wonderland, mile by mile. The path was not simple or easy and required long-term perserverance to slowly unravel this underground labyrinth. In the process huge passages and rooms were discovered along with rare and beautiful cave formations. Divers have recently pushed in from Blue Spring for over a mile in flooded cave passages. A connection has not yet been made to the air-filled passages, but they are getting close. The story of their exploration is exciting and dangerous.

This book is lavishly illustrated with photographs and maps. Each chapter will actually show you where the explorers have gone and what they found. The maps will enable you to follow them further and further from the entrance. This book will treat you to the complete exploration of Blue Spring Cave since the breakthrough in 1989 up to the present.

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Blue Spring Cave
2010, National Speleological Society
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Blue Spring Cave
February, 2010, National Speleological Society
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First Sentence

"There is no doubt that prehistoric peoples knew about the entrance to Blue Spring Cave."

Table of Contents

1. The Discovery of Blue Spring Cave
Page 17
2. Early Visitors to Blue Spring Cave
Page 23
3. Follow the Wind
Page 29
4. The Blue Bob Extension
Page 33
5. Borehole !
Page 45
6. The Master Blaster
Page 55
7. The Perfect Passage
Page 61
8. The Parallel World
Page 67
9. A Change of Direction
Page 73
10. The Frosted Flakeway
Page 77
11. Mega Junction
Page 83
12. The Second River Crossing
Page 91
13. The Moonscape
Page 99
14. Sand Land
Page 105
15. Lonnies Lane
Page 111
16. The Outer Limits
Page 123
17. Thunder Falls
Page 129
18. The Crystal Dagger Gallery
Page 135
19. The Great Flood
Page 149
20. The Baghdad Breakdown
Page 159
21. The Cathedral Room
Page 167
22. Poltergeist Canyon
Page 181
23. Divers Explore Blue Spring
Page 189
24. Crashing Spire Plunge
Page 193
25. The Accident
Page 205
26. The Carr Entrance
Page 213
27. Footprints in the Dark
Page 223
28. The Joop Loop
Page 231
29. Gamma Dome
Page 239
30. The Blue Spring Resurgence
Page 245
31. A Valentine's Day Surprise
Page 257
32. The Survey of Blue Spring Cave
Page 261
33. The Life of Blue Spring Cave
Page 269
34. The Geology of Blue Spring Cave
Page 273
35. Color Photographs of Blue Spring Cave
Page 281

Edition Notes

Published in
Huntsville, Alabama

Classifications

Library of Congress
GB606.B58 M37 2010

The Physical Object

Number of pages
346
Dimensions
8.5 X 11

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24128190M
ISBN 10
9781879961364
LCCN
2009942858
OCLC/WorldCat
607042943

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