Missouri Caves in History and Legend

Informationen zum Autor Former show cave operator H. Dwight Weaver is the author of nine books, including Wilderness Underground: Caves of the Ozark Plateau , also published by the University of Missouri Press, and most recently History and Geography of Lake of the Ozarks . He lives near Eldon, Missouri. Klappentext Missouri has been likened to a ""cave factory"" because its limestone bedrock can be slowly dissolved by groundwater to form caverns! and the state boasts more than six thousand caves in an unbelievable variety of sizes! lengths! and shapes. This work records a cultural heritage stretching from the end of the ice age to the twenty-first century. Zusammenfassung Missouri has been likened to a ""cave factory"" because its limestone bedrock can be slowly dissolved by groundwater to form caverns! and the state boasts more than six thousand caves in an unbelievable variety of sizes! lengths! and shapes. This work records a cultural heritage stretching from the end of the ice age to the twenty-first century.

Product details

• Authors: H Dwight Weaver, H. Dwight Weaver, H.Dwight Weaver
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2008
• EAN: 9780826217783
• ISBN: 978-0-8262-1778-3
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Missouri Heritage Readers; Missouri Heritage Readers Series; Missouri Heritage Readers; Missouri Heritage Readers Series
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous