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Sunday, October 28, 2018
The Magic of a Pristine Cave: Wanderings in the Black Chasm
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The miners were not kind to the caverns of the Sierra Nevada. The search for gold in the foothills led fortune-seekers all over the hill...
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Sunday, October 22, 2017
How Does a Pristine Cavern Look? Black Chasm Provides a Clue
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Some things can only be experienced once. The discovery of a new plant or animal that no one has ever seen, a new mineral, a new planet in...
Thursday, November 12, 2015
The Karst Topography...of California? Into the Black Chasm
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California is not really known for her expanses of karst topography, the landscapes that develop where limestone or marble lies undergroun...
Sunday, October 19, 2014
The Sierra Nevada Underground: How does a newly discovered pristine cave look? Finding out at Black Chasm
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There are caves and there are caves. Many of them were discovered long ago, and the easily accessible ones suffered grievous damage. In ea...
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Sunday, October 21, 2012
The Sierra Nevada Underground: Into the Black Chasm
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California is full of delightful geological surprises. Mention "caverns" and most Americans will think of places like Mammoth Ca...
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