Adaptation to Darkness
Adaptation to Low Food
Adaptation to Low Oxygen in Groundwater Organisms
Adaptive Shifts
Anchialine Caves
Anchialine Caves, Diversity in
Bats
Beetles
Behavioral Adaptations in Cave Living Animals
Breakdown
Burnesville Cove, Virginia
Camps
Castleguard Cave
Cave, Definition of
Cave Dwellers in the Middle East
Chemoautotrophy
Clastic Sediments
Closed Depressions
Coastal Caves
Contamination of Cave Waters by Heavy Metals
Contamination of Cave Waters by Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids
Cosmogenic Isotope Dating
Crustacea
Databases
Dinaric Karst, Diversity in
Diversity in Australia
Diversity in Europe
Diversity in the Tropics
Diversity in the United States
Early Humans in the Mammoth Cave Area
Ecotones
Entranceless Caves, Discovery of
Entranceless Caves, Geophysics of
Entrances
Epikarst
Epikarstic Communities
Evolution of Lineages
Exploration
Fish
Flooding
Food Sources
Friars Hole System, West Virginia
Glacier Caves
Guano Communities
Gypsum Caves
Gypsum Flowers
Huautla System, Mexico
Hydrogeology of Karst Aquifers
Hydrothermal Caves
Invasion, Active vs. Passive
Jewel Cave, South Dakota
Karren
Karst Waters Tracing
Kazumura Cave, Hawaii
Krubera Cave
Lechuguilla Cave, New Mexico
Life History, Evolution
Mammoth Cave System, Kentucky
Mapping Subterranean Biodiversity
Marine Regressions
Maya Caves
Microbes
Minerals
Modeling Karst Aquifers
Molluscs
Morphological Adaptations
Multilevel Caves and Landscape Evolution
Mulu Caves, Malaysia
Myriapods
Myth and Legend, Caves in
Natural Selection
Neutral Mutation
Nitrate Contamination in Karst Ground Water
Nullabor Caves, Australia
Paleomagnetic Record in Cave Sediments
Paleontology of Caves: Pleistocene Mammals
Passage Growth and Development
Passages
Pits and Shafts
Postojna-Planinska Cave System, Slovenia
Population Structure
Protecting Caves and Cave Life
Recreational Caving
Rescues
Root Communities in Lava Tubes
Salamanders
Salpetre Mining
Show Caves
Siebenhengste Cave System, Switzerland
Sinking Streams and Cave Systems
Soil Piping and Sinkhole Failures
Solution Caves in Regions of Moderate Relief
Solutional Sculpturing
Species Interactions
Speleothems
Speleothem Deposition
Spiders & Related Groups
Springs
Stalactites and Stalagmites
Sulfuric Acid Caves
Ukrainian Caves
Vertebrate Visitors
Vicariance and Dispersalist Biogeography
Volcanic Caves
Wakulla Spring Underwater Cave System, Florida
Water Chemistry in Caves
Worms
* Presents a cross-section of contemporary knowledge of caves
ranging from biology, geology, and human uses to exploration
techniques
* Brings together 107 in-depth articles from respected
international authors
* Showcases hundreds of color and black & white photographs, maps,
charts, and illustrations
* Highlights many of the great caves of the world
* Makes information easy to find with alphabetical listings, cross
references, suggestions for further reading, plus a full glossary
and index
William B. White received a B.S. degree in chemistry from Juniata College (Huntingdon, PA) in 1954. Following four years at Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh, he entered Penn State and received a Ph.D. in geochemistry in 1962. In 1963, he joined the Penn State faculty, rising to full professor in 1972. White’s research interests cover a wide range of topics in geosciences and materials science including crystal chemistry, infrared and Raman spectroscopy, mineral physics, and aqueous geochemistry as well as extensive research on the hydrogeology and geomorphology of caves and karstic terrains. At Penn State he taught an undergraduate course on the Geology of Caves and Karst for many years. His research work has resulted in nearly 400 technical papers. He is author or editor of seven books including the widely used textbook Hydrology and Geomorphology of Karst Terrains.
"Culver and White have aimed at a broad span of topics, inlcuding
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mining, which might not be the ones that instantly come to
mind...If there is any bias it might be towards cave biology, which
is no bad thing as this is an area where infomration is not easily
available." --John Goodier, in REFERENCE REVIEWS, VOL. 19, 2005
"...an excellent addition to the very limited currently available
literature on caves and karst." --Andy Baker, Department of
Geography, University of Birmingham, in JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY
SCIENCE, 2005
"Although scientifically rigorous, the articles are readily
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in the 'hows' of cave exploration. Truly international in both
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diversions." --AMERICAN SCIENTIST
"This book is an exciting and significant contribution to the field
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Journal of Cave and Karst Studies
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"Culver and White have brought together a truly international team
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Slovenia
"This monumental and attractively presented reference book belongs
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"The construction of the items from 'Adaptation to Darkness' to
'Worms' gives a deep, accurate insight on the cave’s world. Several
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to taxonomy and evolution...Encyclopedia of Caves will be one of
the landmarks for the sciences of cave studies from now and for
many years onward..." --Giuseppe Messana, CNR - Institute of
Ecosystem Study , Firenze, Italy
"The Encyclopedia of Caves, edited by Culver and White, with over
100 articles by world-wide experts on caves, is quite unique with
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"…one of the most readable and engaging volumes of this kind…the
editors are to be commended for bringing together such a wealth of
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for its appealing presentation." --Russell S. Harmon, North
Carolina State University
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