| | Report (volume) | ............................................ Cave niter................................................north of Gerlach............................... Niter salts near Railroad Valley........................Map showing distribution of niter claims near Lovelock, Nev..... II. Niter claims north of Gerlach, in...in the northern Granite Range, Washoe County, Nev.: A, Upper claims; B, Lower claims............... FIGURE...location of niter deposits and prospects in Greenwich Canyon, near Grass Valley, Piute County, Utah.... | | | Journal (issue) | 4 GEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF CONFEDERATE SALTPETER CAVE OPERATIONS IN WESTERN VIRGINIA Robert C. Whisonant...of saltpetercaves, the South built a first-rate niter and gunpowderindustry almost fkom the groundup....199th; 1997; 1998;2000), looks at the geology of cave niter deposits, and the use of this invaluable strategicmaterialto...black gunpowder was potassium nitrate, derived fiom niter or saltpeter as it was called (Figure 1). Each powder...powder grain contained about 75 per cent niter, together with charcoal (15 percent) and sulfur (10 percent) | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | SHERWOOD 106A East 25th, P. 0. Box 436 Oak Grove, Missouri 64075-0436 Downloaded by [Brown University Library]...Louis, Missouri 63129-2704 Figure 1. Counties in Missouri. N o comprehensive list of Missouri mineral...found in Missouri; two of these, fletcherite and starkeyite, were first described from Missouri mines....location a~ included at the end of each entry. Adair County Chariton River (40-04-05N 92-4 I -23W). septarian...septarian concretions about 2 miles north of the Macon county line. CALCITE crystals enclosing bundles of acicular | | | Book (edition) | chapters entitled Gypsum Caves, Krubera (Voronja) Cave, and Ukranian Giant Gypsum Caves. Copyright © 2005...Burlington, MA 01803, USA 525 B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, California 92101-4495, USA 84 Theobald’s Road...to Darkness Crustacea 1 Databases Castleguard Cave, Canada Adaptation to Low Food 10 Frédéric Hervant...Boris Sket Diversity Patterns in the Tropics 166 Cave Dwellers in the Middle East 85 Paul Goldberg and...Susan W. Murray and Thomas H. Kunz Contamination of Cave Waters by Heavy Metals 127 Beetles Dorothy J. | | | Book (edition) | of Elsevier 225 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451, USA The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford...B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, CA 92101-4495, USA First edition 2005 Second edition 2012 Copyright...Encycloped ia xiii 99 Eco:.yl>tt!ms /o:, .,, 5 S•m<"' Cave, Dcfmition of l'rdacc xv \'\'J//:.JI/1 A Adnptation...An~a!' 140 155 F i\.1_vtwir Contnmination of Cave Waters by Heavy ~eta ls l)(rrr•tl•l( 1 v.~.,~·r...Un itt'\·! St.1tcs II lf,f•!-.; III lim r.lltt Cave Dwellt>r., in tlw Middlt> Fno;t '14 f'ilto/ C., | | | Book | Hamilton-Smith, Chair IUCN/WCPA Working Group on Cave and Karst Protection Alexander Klimchouk, Institute...the 100 m deep “Lost World” entrance to Mangapu Cave, Waitomo, New Zealand. (Photo by John Gunn) Stalactites...and stalagmites in “Castle Grotto”, Hollow Hill Cave, Waitomo, New Zealand. (Photo by John Gunn) A fine...(Photo by John Gunn) Classic hand silhouettes in the cave of Ujung Bulo in Sulawesi, Indonesia. (Photo by...(continent, country, region, or individual site or cave) reflecting the Advisory Board’s opinions as to |
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