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  2. California Caverns - Wikipedia

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    The cave was discovered by Captain Joseph Taylor (on land originally claimed by James b. Mckinney for gold mining) in 1849. He opened it for public tours, making it the first show cave in California. James Mckinney originally named it Mammoth Cave in remembrance of mammoth caverns near his hometown in Kentucky. but by 1894 it was known as Cave ...

  3. Mammoth Cave National Park - Wikipedia

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    Tourists inside the cave. The park's mission is stated in its foundation document: [7] The purpose of Mammoth Cave National Park is to preserve, protect, interpret, and study the internationally recognized biological and geologic features and processes associated with the longest known cave system in the world, the park’s diverse forested karst landscape, the Green and Nolin rivers, and ...

  4. John Alan Glennon - Wikipedia

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    The Martin Ridge Cave System, Cave Research Foundation Newsletter. Quinlan, J. F. and Ray, J. (1989). Map of groundwater basins, surface drainage, major caves, flow routes, the potentiometric surface, and an index to the topographic maps in the Mammoth Cave Region south of the Green River, 2nd edition. Friends of the Karst, Mammoth Cave, KY.

  5. You have to look beneath the surface to fully appreciate ...

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    Mammoth Cave is the longest-known cave system in the world. “There are caves that have larger rooms, but we are the longest,” Schroer said. “We are currently mapped at 426 miles.

  6. Whigpistle Cave System - Wikipedia

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    The Whigpistle Cave System is a large cave near Mammoth Cave, in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The system, composed of the interconnected Whigpistle, Martin Ridge, and Jackpot Caves, has been mapped to over 66 kilometers (41 mi), and is currently the United States' thirteenth-longest cave.

  7. List of World Heritage Sites in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The park also contains areas of pristine coastline which is home to sea lion, bald eagle, and California brown pelican. [16] Mammoth Cave National Park: Kentucky: 1981 150; vii, viii, x (natural) Mammoth Cave is the longest known cave system in the world, with 426 mi (686 km) [17] of mapped passageways. The cave system is home to more than 130 ...

  8. List of longest caves in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Mammoth Cave National Park, also a World Heritage Site and International Biosphere Reserve. Longest cave in the world. 2 Jewel Cave: 353.69 km (219.8 mi) [4] [5] near Custer, South Dakota: Jewel Cave National Monument: 3 Wind Cave: 266.8 km (165.8 mi) [6]

  9. One of California's riskiest volcanoes has been seeing more ...

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    The Long Valley Caldera was formed by a super-eruption about 760,000 years ago that blasted 140 cubic miles of magma, covering much of east-central California in hot ash that was blown as far away ...