Limestone caves form along ground-water paths of greatest discharge and solutional
aggressiveness. Flow routes that acquire increasing discharge accelerate in growth, while others …

All life forms have an absolute requirement for metals, as metals play critical roles in fundamental
processes, including osmotic regulation, catalysis, metabolism, biomineralization, and …

… PALMER & STROBECK … A particularly striking example of this pattern occurs in Mason
et aI's study (64) of wing pattern variation in a nymphalid butterfly (detailed in Palmer, 71). It …

Cosmogenic 26 Al and 10 Be in sediments washed into Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, record
the history of 3.5 my of water-table position, governed by incision and aggradation of the …

Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most common causes of mental deterioration in elderly
people, accounting for around 50%-60% of the overall cases of dementia among persons over …

Cave Geology is the definitive book on the subject by an internationally recognized authority.
It can be easily understood by non-scientists but also covers a wide range of topics in …

Este livro é uma tentativa pioneira de um grupo internacional de cientistas para resumir o
conhecimento moderno sobre as origens da caverna em vários cenários, para examinar a …

Cueva de Villa Luz, a hypogenic cave in Tabasco, Mexico, offers a remarkable opportunity
to observe chemotrophic microbial interactions within a karst environment. The cave water …

Fluorescent proteins are genetically encoded, easily imaged reporters crucial in biology and
biotechnology 1 , 2 . When a protein is tagged by fusion to a fluorescent protein, interactions …

Jewel Cave (118 km of mapped passages beneath an area of 2.7 km 2 ) and Wind Cave (70
km beneath 1.8 km 2 ) are, respectively, the fourth and tenth longest known cave systems …