Volume 27(1), April 2000
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Vein cavities and early cave evolution, Derbyshire, UK
Anomalous scallop distributions, Yorkshire, UK
The age of the Dream Cave
Woolly Rhino
Kent's Cavern in the 18th Century
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Photo by Paul Deakin, FRPS: Titan, Peak-Speedwell cave system, Castleton,
Derbyshire, UK.
This huge vein cavity is over 150m high, with a free-hanging drop of
142m from its highest point (see survey in Caves & Caving 85, 1999)
making it by far Britain's largest natural shaft. At the top of the cavity the
east-west extent is some 90m to 100m and the north-south width is some 15m to
20m. The vein cavity has developed along a minor northwest-southeast vein (see
paper by Trevor Ford in this issue).
- (Gunn, J. & D. Lowe (eds))
Editorial
Vol
27 (1) pp 3 - 4
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Some remarks are made about the spectacular increase in the amount
of information accessible on the Internet using keywords "cave" and "karst",
and sounds a note of caution in pointing out that few of these web pages have
been subjected to any kind of independent review process.
Cave and Karst Science, of course, is a reviewed journal. The
following are acknowledged as expert reviewers for the papers in Volume 26:
| Tim Atkinson |
Alexander Klimchouk |
| Simon Bottrell |
Stein-Erik Lauritzen |
| Mike Edmunds |
Martyn Pedley |
| Trevor Faulkner |
Peter Rowe |
| Trevor Ford |
Tony Waltham |
| David Gillieson |
Chas Yonge |
- (Ford, T.D.)
Vein cavities: an early stage in the
evolution of the Castleton Caves, Derbyshire, UK
Vol 27 (1) pp 5 -
14
- Abstract: Recent discoveries have revealed an increasing number of
large, commonly isolated, phreatic dissolution cavities in mineral veins,
faults and fractures around Castleton, Derbyshire. They are suggested to be
significant as an early phreatic phase of the development of the Castleton
karst, having provided inception routes for movement of water through the
limestone massif, thereby stimulating later phreatic and vadose development of
caves along the bedding in the adjacent Carboniferous Limestone.
- (Shaw, T.R.)
Kent's Cavern, England, in the 18th
century
Vol 27 (1) pp 15 - 24
- Abstract: Four almost unknown records of Kent's Cavern (Torquay) from
between 1750 and 1783 are discussed. A response to Dr Jeremiah Milles's c.1750
questionnaire sent to all parishes in Devon refers to a description once
attached but now lost; bats from the cave were used in 1775 by James Cornish in
his experiments on hibernation; an anonymous reviser of the 8th edition of
Daniel Defoe's A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain added a
footnote on the cave in 1778; and Richard Polwhele had published anonymously in
1783 An account of Kent's Hole, a natural grotto, in the County of Devon,
written by a gentleman who lately visited it, and addressed to a friend of
his, almost the same description as appears in his book The history of
Devonshire of 1797.
- (McFarlane, D.A., J. Lundberg & D.C. Ford)
The age of
the woolly rhino from Dream Cave, Derbyshire, UK
Vol 27(1) pp 25 -
28
- Abstract: The Dream Cave woolly rhinoceros, Coelodonta
antiquitatis, is a "classic" specimen of a "cold-stage" fossil fauna from
central England. The find was illustrated and described by Dean William
Buckland in his seminal tome Reliquiae Diluvianae (1823) during the
first half of the 19th century, and made a significant contribution to the
development of Buckland's views on the origin of extinct and extirpated fossil
vertebrates. The report presents the first, albeit indirect, radiometric dates
on the specimen, and argues that the animal fell into the cave just before
37,000 years BP, during the middle of Marine Isotope Stage 3 Interstadial (41 -
39 ka BP).
- (Murphy, P.J., A.M. Hall & J.N. Cordingley)
Anomalous
scallop distributions in Joint Hole, Chapel-le-Dale, North Yorkshire,
UK
Vol 27(1) pp 29 - 32
- Abstract: Observations and subsequent measurements made by cave
divers in the Joint Hole active phreatic conduit have revealed two distinct and
adjacent scallop distributions. Analysis using well-established hydraulic
equations show that the scallops are indicative of very different sub-critical,
turbulent flow regimes. That derived for scallops observed on the floor of the
passage agrees with evidence gained from previous studies of the sediment
populations (Murphy, P.J., 1999). No over-printing of scallop signatures either
on the roof or floor is observed, suggesting that another (as yet unknown)
mechanism may give rise to the preferential enlargement of erosional features
on the roof of the passage. This study illustrates the importance of direct
observations and measurements made by cave divers.
Meeting Reviews
- (Lowe, D.J.)
Abstracts of the 8th International
Karstological School: "Classical Karst" held in Postojna, Slovenia 27 - 29
June, 2000
Vol 27 (1) pp 37 - 42
- (Lowe, D.J.)
Abstracts of the Forest of Dean Caving
Symposium III: "Forest 2000" held in English Bicknor, UK 16 - 18 June,
2000
Vol 27 (1) pp 43 - 46
- (Stanton, W.I.)
Comments on the paper "On the origin of
the thermal waters at Bath, United Kingdom: A sub-Severn hypothesis" by
Wilcock, J.D, & D.J. Lowe (Cave and Karst Science Vol 26 (2)), with
a reply from the authors.
Vol 27 (1) pp 33 - 36
- (Cordingley, J.)
Comments on the paper "Water studies in
Wookey Hole Cave, Somerset, UK" by Chapman, T. et al. (Cave and Karst
Science Vol 26 (3))
Vol 27 (1) p 36
Book Reviews
- (Waltham, A.C.)
Klimchouk, A.B., D.C. Ford, A.N. Palmer
& W. Dreybrodt (eds), 2000. Speleogenesis: Evolution of karst
aquifers
Vol 27 (1) p 47
- (Grimes, K.)
Drew, D. & H. Hötzl (eds), 1999.
Karst hydrology and human activities
Vol 27 (1) pp 47 - 48
- (Jobling, A., 2000)
Resistivity tomography survey over a
topographic depression, West Yorkshire
Vol 27 (1) p 48
- BSc (Honours) Geophysical Sciences dissertation, School of Earth
Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 2000
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