Ice cave research of the United States
- Natural and anthropogenic ice caves are spread out on the North American continent, especially in the United States. Many of these climate archives are already forgotten, no longer contain ice due to climatic changes, or are expected to lose their ice soon. However, sources from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries suggest the former density of ice caves in this nation. A synopsis of the American ice cave research from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to the present is the focus of this article. A priori, basic terms and problems of ice cave research are addressed and elucidated. Subsequently, climatic conditions that facilitate or counteract the buildup of cave ice over the course of a year are presented. On the basis of an ice cave classification, different ice cave types are outlined and analyzed in their distribution in the United States. The accompanying map illustrating the geographic locations of caves in the mainland United States represents the first version of an American ice cave distribution.
| Author: | David HolmgrenGND, Andreas PflitschORCiDGND, Julia RingeisORCiDGND, Christiane MeyerORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-59648 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.4311/2014IC0116 |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of cave and karst studies |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2018/07/18 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2017/12/01 |
| Publishing Institution: | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek |
| Tag: | Open Access Fonds |
| Volume: | 79 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| First Page: | 146 |
| Last Page: | 152 |
| Note: | Article Processing Charge funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the Open Access Publication Fund of Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Used with permission of the National Speleological Society www.caves.org. |
| Institutes/Facilities: | Geographisches Institut |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | Geschichte und Geografie / Geografie, Reisen |
| open_access (DINI-Set): | open_access |
| faculties: | Fakultät für Geowissenschaften |
| Licence (German): |  Keine Creative Commons Lizenz - es gelten die Rechteeinräumung und das deutsche Urheberrecht |
