Speleothem Essays

  • The Impact of Tourism on the Natural Limestone Environment of Cheddar

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    The Impact of Tourism on the Natural Limestone Environment of Cheddar The aim of this piece of coursework is to investigate the impact of tourism, and a Park and Ride scheme, on the natural limestone environment of Cheddar. Cheddar is just forty-five minutes away to the south east of St Gregory's Catholic Comprehensive School. The A18 is the road that we first took to get to Cheddar and then we took the B3135 to get into the gorge, as you can see on the map on page . We visited Cheddar

  • Cave Caves Essay

    1385 Words  | 3 Pages

    Moore (1952) introduced the term ‘speleothem’ in order to describe the different types of secondary mineral deposits (i.e. decoration). Taking a step forward, Hill and Forti (1985) divided speleothems into four categories: dripstone (e.g. stalactites, stalagmites, ‘curtains’), flowstone (e.g. stone waterfalls), pore deposits (e.g. helictites) and pool deposits (e.g. ‘cave pearls’). Overall, all types of speleothems are formed by water saturated with dissolved calcite (CaCO3)

  • Valley Region of the Appalachian Mountains

    1824 Words  | 4 Pages

    Valley Region of the Appalachian Mountains and Subsequent Karst Regions in the State of Virginia This map which appears on page 402 of Process Geomorphology (1995), written by Dale F. Ritter, Craig R. Kochel, and Jerry R. Miller, serves as the basis of my report on the formation of the Appalachian Mountains and its subsequent karst regions in along the Atlantic side of the United States particularly in the state of Virginia. The shaded areas represent generalized karst regions throughout the

  • Mammoth Cave History

    1507 Words  | 4 Pages

    Mammoth Cave National Park is home to the world’s largest known cave system. Millions of years ago this region was originally located 10° south of the equator (GORP.com, 2002) in an area was covered by shallow seas. Over the years plate tectonics have caused this area to move to 37.1833° north of the equator. Also, causing the shallow sea waters to dissipate and upheaval of the earth’s crust, known as the Cincinnati Arch (Livesay,1953). Over the years the Cincinnati Arch and surrounding areas

  • Late Bronze Age Collapse

    1621 Words  | 4 Pages

    Collapse of the Late Bronze Age The earliest civilizations left behind many answers to how society worked and the development of complexity over time. Despite the many findings from various civilizations, there are also many questions left unanswered. Collapse, the reasons that lead to the end of a civilization, are theorized and contemplated, therefore highly debated between archeologists. Collapse is best described by Joseph Tainter as “a process of marked sociopolitical simplification