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2. 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 ...

3. Stephen Bishop (cave explorer) - Wikipedia

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   Stephen Bishop United States National Park Service webpage about Bishop; Map of the explored parts of the Mammoth Cave of KY. (1845) on the Tennessee Virtual Archive (TeVA), Tennessee State Library and Archives (accessed May 7, 2021). Peter West, "Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869", Southern Spaces, 9 ...

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

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   The first known formal tour of Mammoth Cave was given in 1816, long before it became part of the National Park Service in 1941. One of Mammoth Cave’s most famous early guides was an enslaved man ...

5. Roger Brucker - Wikipedia

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   However, Thornton's option expired, and rights to the book were then acquired by producer Peter R.J. Deyell in 2011. [2] In 1983, rival groups of explorers, including Brucker, discovered a connection between Mammoth Cave and nearby Roppel Cave, further expanding the known reaches of the Mammoth Cave system beyond the boundaries of the national ...

6. Big Clifty Sandstone - Wikipedia

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   At Mammoth Cave National Park the Big Clifty overlies the Girkin Formation, the uppermost of three cave forming carbonate formations which the Mammoth-Flint Ridge cave system spans. [9] Below the Girkin Formation are the Ste. Genevieve Limestone, and the St. Louis Limestone respectively. The chemically resistant sediments comprising the Big ...

7. 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]

8. Hadenoecus subterraneus - Wikipedia

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   Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Mammoth Cave National Park: Scientific classification ... the common cave cricket, or Mammoth Cave cricket is a species of ...

9. Great Onyx Cave - Wikipedia

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   The owners of Great Onyx Cave refused to sell their land when the federal government was purchasing property for Mammoth Cave National Park during the 1930s. When the National Park was established in 1941, Great Onyx Cave remained a privately held "island" within the Park's borders. [3] The cave was finally sold to the National Park Service and ...