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Great Saltpetre Cave Information

Geology Information

Format	Title	Source
	Kentucky Is Karst County What you should know about sinkholes and springs 1,136 kb - Brochure	KGS
	Karst Occurrence in Kentucky (map) 1,266 kb	KGS
	Rockcastle County Karst Areas	KGS
	Geologic Map of Kentucky 1,591 kb	KGS
	Karst Ground Water Basins - Somerset Quad (map) 3,634 kb - Includes Rockcastle County	KGS
	Origin For Multilevel Caves Along The Western Escarpment Of The Cumberland Plateau, TN & KY	Anthony & Granger
HTML	Geologic Map of Rockcastle County	USGS
HTML	Geology of Rockcastle County Web Page - Article	Pollock & O'Dell
HTML	Hydrology Of Rockcastle County Web Page - Article	O'Dell
HTML	Caves of Rockcastle County	Rebmann & O'Dell

Law & Legal Information

Format	Title	Source
	A Kentucky Cave Owner's Guide To Liability	Lisa Pruitt-Thorner
HTML	Chapter 433 - Cave Laws	Kentucky Revised Statute
HTML	Chapter 411 - Recreation Statute	Kentucky Revised Statute

Cave Owner/Visitor/Management Information

Format	Title	Source
HTML	Living On Karst Web Site	WVCC
	Fragile Underground 1,076 kb - Brochure	NSS
	Identifying Kentucky's Hibernating Bats 977 kb	Hemberger MacGregor
	Bats 1,253 kb - Brochure	NSS
	Sinkhole Management 322 kb - brochure	IKC
	Protect  Kentucky's Karst Aquifers (poster) 8.9 mb	KGS
HTML	Kentucky Forest Landowner's Handbook	MACED

Saltpeter Mining Articles

Format	Title	Source
	All Great Saltpetre Cave Articles
	Saltpeter Manufacturing And Marketing And Its Relation To The Gunpowder Industry In Kentucky During The Nineteenth Century	O'Dell
	Examining Early Nineteenth Century Saltpeter Caves An Archaeological Perspective	Duncan
	The Saltpeter Works At Mammoth Cave And The New Madrid Earthquake	George & O'Dell
.JPG	Sketch - Making Gunpowder in Mammoth Cave

Miscellaneous Interesting Information

Format	Title	Source
HTML	History Of Eastern Kentucky Karst	Larry Simpson
HTML	History of Rockcastle County	Jerry G. Horn
HTML	Prehistory of the Rockcastle and Jackson County Cave Regions	Ken Tankersley
	The Fight At Big Springs Cave	Adami, Green & Haley
.GIF	Rockcastle County Map 1,136 kb
HTML	1898 Account Of A Visit To A Cave In Climax, KY	Mount Vernon Signal
HTML	Phil Felburn Obituary	Star Banner
HTML	Ellie Schiller Obituary	Citrus County Chronicle

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