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Posts treating: "Black Chasm Cavern"

Sunday, 28 October 2018

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The Magic of a Pristine Cave: Wanderings in the Black Chasm 

Geotripper [2018-10-28 08:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (513 visits) info
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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 hills and valleys of the Mother Lode in the Sierra Nevada, and practically every slope and hollow was prospected for the elusive metal. They usually came up empty of the riches they sought so eagerly, but many times the miners would encounter an unexpected

How Does a Pristine Cavern Look? Black Chasm Provides a Clue 

Geotripper [2017-10-23 05:47:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (28 visits) info
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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 space, to see a vista that no one has witnessed before. Exploration of new things is one of the great joys of being human. One of the saddest lines I've ever seen in a move was from The Truman Show (1998): Young Truman: I'd like to be an explorer, like

The Karst Topography...of California? Into the Black Chasm 

Geotripper [2015-11-12 09:03:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (150 visits) info

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California is not really known for her expanses of karst topography, the landscapes that develop where limestone or marble lies underground. In my short mini-series about the karst of California, we've seen the gold-fields of Columbia State Historical Park, the grinding stones at Chaw'se State Park, and the Natural Bridges of Coyote Creek. Today we are going underground to see the reason

The Sierra Nevada Underground: How does a newly discovered pristine cave look? Finding out at Black Chasm 

Geotripper [2014-10-19 20:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (632 visits) info

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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 earlier days, cave decorations (speleothems) were broken off as souvenirs in the sadly mistaken belief that they would grow back quickly. Today's cave vandals have no such excuse. They break and destroy for sheer maliciousness. It's sad either way because

It's Just a Damned Rock...or Stalactite...or Wolf...or National Park. Where does it stop? 

Geotripper [2013-10-21 03:28:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (607 visits) info
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The subject of today's post grew out of several news items from the past few weeks, and a walk underground that I took yesterday. I'm going to start with a bit of a mental exercise. Imagine a cavern in a place like the Sierra Nevada foothills, a cave that was discovered by miners in the 1850s, and offered up as tourist stop for the next 30 years or so. Think how attitudes about caves

The Other California Goes Underground: Hella Hot Helictites at Black Chasm Cave 

Geotripper [2010-10-22 01:12:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (38 visits) info
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The guesses regarding the odd features in Wednesday's "Whatsit?" were all over the place, including a great story of the albino cave tarantulas, but a number of people remembered their obscure cave decorations and called them by their correct name: helictites. We were in Black Chasm Cavern near the towns of Volcano and Pine Grove in the Sierra Nevada Mother Lode. The state of California has

Cave Bacon and Stalactites on Drugs: The Mother Lode Underground 

Geotripper [2009-10-28 19:03:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (26 visits) info
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During our field trip outdoors last weekend, we spent a lot of time underground. One of our stops included a tour of Black Chasm Cavern near the town of Volcano in the Mother Lode of the Sierra Nevada. It is a strikingly beautiful cave in a region that is not really known for its cave systems, but they are there and they are a truly unique place to learn about geological processes in the
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