Missouri Speleology
Missouri Speleology
Journal of the Missouri Speleological Survey, Inc
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For over 50 years, developments in Missouri survey, speleology and cave technology have been covered in Missouri Speleology, the journal of the MSS.
From how to map a cave, to detailed geologic reports, from what cave systems exist to proving the existence of cave biota, Missouri Speleology has provided accurate information in an easily readable format.
Volume 1 Number 1 |
1959 |
A Preliminary Study of the Ecology of Some Benton County Cave The Caves of Barry and Benton Counties, Missouri |
Volume 1 Number 2 | 1959 |
The Folklore and History of Some Boone County Caves |
Volume 1 Number 3 | 1959 |
Introductory Report on the Mineralogy of Carroll Cave |
Volume 1 Number 4 | 1959 |
Genesis of a Ceiling Channel in the Devils Icebox, Boone County |
Volume 2 Number 1 | 1960 |
The Flora and Fauna of Cat Hollow Cave |
Volume 2 Number 2 | 1960 |
Preliminary List of Troglobites of Missouri |
Volume 2 Number 3 | 1960 |
Troglobitic Millipedes of Missouri |
Volume 2 Number 4 | 1960 |
Cave Map Symbols |
Volume 3 Number 1 | 1961 |
The Design of a Rangefinder for Cave Mapping |
Volume 3 Number 2 | 1961 |
The Caves of Miller County, Missouri |
Volume 3 Number 3 | 1961 |
The Caves of Moniteau, Morgan, Monroe, and Montgomery Counties, Missouri |
Volume 3 Number 4 | 1961 |
Influence of Jointing on Cavern Development in Miller County, Missouri |
Volume 4 Number 1-2 | 1962 |
Cave Mapping: A Systematic Approach |
Volume 4 Number 3 | 1962 |
The Formation of Cave Pearls |
Volume 4 Number 4 | 1962 |
Caves in the Geologic Column |
Volume 5 Number 1 | 1963 |
The Caves of Phelps County, Missouri |
Volume 5 Number 2-3 | 1963 |
The Caves of Pike County, Missouri |
Volume 5 Number 4 | 1963 |
The Dire Wolf in Missouri |
Volume 6 Number 1 | 1964 |
Stratigraphy of Detrital Fills of Carroll Cave, Camden County, Missouri |
Volume 6 Number 2 | 1964 | New MSS Policy on Cave Locations Caves of Pulaski County |
Volume 6 Number 3 | 1964 |
A History of Cherokee Cave A Foundation Investigation of Cherokee Cave |
Volume 6 Number 4 | 1964 |
The Mechanics of Banding Bats |
Volume 7 Number 1 | 1965 |
New MSS Policy on Cave Locations |
Volume 7 Number 2 | 1965 |
Caves of St Charles and St Clair County, Missouri |
Volume 7 Number 3 | 1965 |
Caves of Ste Genevieve County, Missouri |
Volume 7 Number 4 | 1965 |
A Preliminary Report on the Fossil Pleistocene Mammals from Perry County Caves |
Volume 8 Number 1 | 1966 |
Caves of St Louis County, Missouri |
Volume 8 Number 2 | 1966 |
Memorial Issue: Maurice G Mehl |
Volume 8 Number 3 | 1966 |
10th Anniversary of the Missouri Speleogical Survey: A Status Report |
Volume 8 Number 4 | 1966 |
Caves of Shannon County, Missouri |
Volume 9 Number 1 | 1967 |
The Parasitic Mites of the Gray Bat |
Volume 9 Number 2 | 1967 |
Caves of Stoddard and Stone County, Missouri |
Volume 9 Number 3 | 1967 |
Caves of Texas and Warren Counties, Missouri |
Volume 9 Number 4 | 1967 |
Caves of Washington County |
Volume 10 Number 1 | 1968 |
A Foundation Problem in Cavernous Dolomite Terrain, Pulaski County, Missouri |
Volume 10 Number 2 | 1968 |
Cave Regions of the Ozarks(Reprint of Luella Agnes Owen's Book) |
Volume 10 Number 3 | 1968 |
Guidebook to Selected Caves in Southwestern Missouri, 25th Annual NSS Convention |
Volume 10 Number 4 | 1968 |
Guide to the Amphibians of Missouri |
Volume 11 Number 1-2 | 1970 |
A History of the Caves of Camden County, Missouri |
Volume 11 Number 3 | 1970 |
Possible Former Entrance to Devils Icebox, Boone County, Missouri |
Volume 11 Number 4 | 1970 |
Caves of Wayne and Wright Counties, Missouri |
Volume 12 Number 1 | 1971 |
Caves of Jefferson County, Missouri |
Volume 12 Number 2 | 1971 |
Pit Caves of Jefferson County, Missouri |
Volume 12 Number 3 | 1971 |
Sandstone Caves of Jefferson County, Missouri |
Volume 12 Number 4 | 1971 |
Status of the Gray Bat in Missouri Caves |
Volume 13 Number 1 | 1973 |
Caves of Laclede County, Missouri |
Volume 13 Number 2 | 1973 |
An Investigation into Ground Water Pollution in Caves |
Volume 13 Number 3 | 1973 |
Report of the Devils Icebox-Rockbridge Park Conservation Task |
Volume 13 Number 4 | 1973 |
Geology of Twin Pit Cave, Boone County, Missouri |
Volume 14 Number 1 | 1974 |
Meramec Valley Symposium, Meramec River, Caves and Bats, Mussels, Flatwater Recreation, Faults, Linears, Solutional Functions of Karst, Spring Resources Meramec River Basin |
Volume 14 Number 2 | 1974 |
Groundwater Problems in Southwest Missouri and Northwest Arkansas |
Volume 14 Number 3 | 1974 |
The Availability of Energy in Bat Guano to a Population of Millipedes |
Volume 14 Number 4 | 1974 |
The Invertebrate Fauna of Mystery Cave, Perry County, Missouri |
Volume 15 Number 1 | 1975 |
A Pleistocene Fauna from Zoo Cave, Taney County, Missouri |
Volume 15 Number 2 | 1975 |
A Checklist of the Invertebrate Species Recorded from Missouri Subterranean Habitats |
Volume 15 Number 3 | 1975 |
Caves of Christian County, Missouri (Eastern Half) |
Volume 15 Number 4 | 1975 |
Caves of Christian County, Missouri (Western Half) |
Volume 16 Number 1-2 | 1976 |
Hydrogeologic Controls of Solution of Carbonate Rocks in Christian County, Missouri |
Volume 16 Number 3 | 1976 |
Water Tracer's Cookbook |
Volume 16 Number 4 | 1976 |
A Biological Study of Cathedral Cave, Crawford County, Missouri |
Volume 17 Number 1-2 | 1977 |
Caves of Reynolds and Shannon Counties, Missouri |
Volume 17 Number 3-4 | 1977 |
Archaeological Investigations: Cave Explorations in the Ozark Region of Central Missouri |
Volume 18 Number 1-4 | 1978 |
Ozark Hydrology: A Predictive Model |
Volume 19 Number 1-2 | 1979 |
Hydrogeology of the North Fork Basin |
Volume 19 Number 3-4 | 1979 |
J Harlen Bretz: A Geologist's Encounters with Missouri Caves |
Volume 20 Number 1-2 | 1980 |
An Introduction to Caving: A Guide for Beginners (Revised and reprinted August 1992) |
Volume 20 Number 3-4 | 1980 |
An Introduction to Map Reading (Revised 1992) |
Volume 21 Number 1-2 | 1981 |
An Introduction to Cave Mapping (2nd edition) |
Volume 21 Number 3-4 | 1981 |
Caves of Crawford County |
Volume 22 Number 1-2 | 1982 |
Caves of the Jack Fork Valley |
Volume 22 Number 3-4 | 1982 |
Caves of the Current River Valley |
Volume 23 Number 1-4 | 1983 |
The Wild Caves of Camden County, Missouri |
Volume 24 Number 1-2 | 1984 |
Caves of Oregon County, Missouri |
Volume 24 Number 3-4 | 1984 |
The Gray Bat in Missouri: A Review of the Literature |
Volume 25 Number 1-4 | 1985 |
Proceedings of the 1984 National Cave Management Symposium including: |
Volume 26 Number 1-2 | 1986 |
Remains of Quaternary Vertebrates from Ozark Caves and Other Miscellaneous Sites |
Volume 26 Number 3-4 | 1986 |
Origin and Development of Cave Spring, Shannon County, Missouri |
Voume 27 Number 1-4 | 1987 |
The Commercial Caves of Camden County, Missouri |
Volume 28 Number 1-4 | 1988 |
Mystery Cave (System) including Carbon Dioxide in Mystery Cave, Perry County, Missouri |
Volume 29 Number 1-4 | 1989 |
Rimstone River Cave, Perry County, Missouri |
Volume 30 Number 1-2 | 1990 |
The Effect of Faulting on Missouri Caves |
Volume 30 Number 3-4 | 1990 | 1990, The Year of the Cave (5,000 Caves Issue) |
Volume 31 Number 1-4 | 1991 |
The Art of Cave Mapping |
Volume 32 Number 1-3 | 1992 |
Caves of Dent County, Missouri |
Volume 32 Number 4 | 1992 |
Large Springs of The Upper Current and Jack's Fork Basins |
Volume 33 Number 1-4 | 1993 |
Caves and Cave Wildlife in a Mineral Prospecting Area, Oregon and Shannon Counties, Missouri |
Volume 34 Number 1-2 | 1994 |
Morphology of the Stinson Cave System, Lawrence County, Missouri |
Volume 34 Number 3-4 | 1994 |
Smittle Cave, Wright County, Missouri |
Volume 35 Number 1-4 | 1995 |
Rimstone River Cave (History) |
Volume 36 Number 1-2 | 1996 |
Honey Branch Cave, Douglas County, Missouri |
Volume 36 Number 3-4 | 1996 |
Geology & Morphology of Brown's Cave, Douglas County, Missouri |
Volume 37 Number 1-2 | 1997 |
The Wild Caves of Benton County, Missouri |
Volume 37 Number 3-4 | 1997 |
Project Caven (The Story of a Cave-Based Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pulaski County, Missouri) |
Volume 38 Number 1-4 | 1998 |
Cave Sediments and the Geomorphic History of the Ozarks |
Volume 39 Number 1-2 | 1999 |
Sedimentation in Missouri Caves |
Volume 39 Number 3 | 1999 |
A Hydrologic Geochemical Model of the Devils Icebox Basin |
Volume 39 Number 4 | 1999 |
Geochemistry of the Springs of Missouri/Data Management |
Volume 40 Number 1-4 | 2000 | The Shelter Cave of Barton, Bates and Vernon Counties, Missouri |
Volume 41 Number 1-4 | 2001 |
The Great Below (A Geography of Caves by University of Missouri-Columbia Students, |
Volume 42 Number 1-2 | 2002 |
Geologic Framework of the Ozarks of South-central Missouri |
Volume 42 Number 3-4 | 2002 |
Aqueous Geochemical Study of a Calcite-Depositing Ozark Creek: Tufa Creek, Shannon County, Missouri |
Volume 43 Number 1 | 2003 |
Geography & Biology of Caves on the Mark Twain National Forest, Eleven Point District, Missouri, Phase 2 |
Volume 43 Number 2 | 2003 |
Geography & Biology of Caves on the Mark Twain National Forest, Eleven Point District, Missouri, Caves A-G |
Volume 43 Number 3 | 2003 |
Geography & Biology of Caves on the Mark Twain National Forest, Eleven Point District, Missouri, Caves H-Z |
Volume 43 Number 4 | 2003 | Geography & Biology of Caves on the Mark Twain National Forest, Eleven Point District, Missouri, Discussion, Refs & Maps |
Volume 44 Number 1-4 | 2004 |
The Caves of Ha Ha Tonka State Park |
Volume 45 Number 1 | 2005 |
Caves of St. Louis County, Missouri |
Volume 45 Number 2 | 2005 |
The Springs of St. Louis |
Volume 45 Number 3 | 2005 |
The Springs of Gravois Creek, St. Louis County, Missouri |
Volume 46 Number 1 | 2006 |
New Cave Maps of 2005 |
Volume 46 Number 2 | 2006 |
Tex Yokum Chronicles - Part I |
Volume 46 Number 3 | 2006 |
Tex Yokum Chronicles - Part II |
Volume 46 Number 4 | 2006 |
Tex Yokum Chronicles - Part III |
Volume 47 Number 1 | 2007 |
New Cave Maps of 2006 |
Volume 47 Number 2-4 | 2007 |
Aquatic and Flood-Zone Cave Communities Aong the Lower Current River: Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Missouri |
Volume 48 Number 1 | 2008 |
New Cave Maps of 2007 |
Volume 48 Number 2-4 | 2008 |
Baseline Biological Inventory of Public Use Caves: Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Missouri |
Volume 49 Number 1 | 2009 |
New Cave Maps of 2008 |
Volume 49 Number 2-4 | 2009 |
An Inventory of Caves: Harry S. Truman Dam & Reservoir |
Volume 50 Number 1 | 2010 |
New Cave Maps of 2009 |
Volume 50 Number 2-3 | 2010 |
Recharge Delineation for Garrison Cave #2, Christian County, Missouri Reworked Loess and Red Clays in Missouri Caves: A Comparative Compositional Study |
Volume 50 Number 4 | 2010 |
An Analysis of the Eurycea Hybrid Zone in Eastern Missouri |
Volume 51 Number 1 | 2011 |
New Cave Maps of 2010 |
Volume 51 Number 2 | 2011 |
Delineating Recharge Areas for Onondaga and Cathedral Caves Using Groundwater Tracing Techniques |
Volume 51 Number 3-4 | 2011 |
Amplified Fragment Length Plymorphism (AFLP) Fingerprint Analysis of Hybrid Salamanders in the Missouri Caverns Section of Onondaga Cave |
Volume 52 Number 1 | 2012 |
The Battle of Sinkhole |
Volume 52 Number 2-3 | 2012 |
Garrison Cave #2: Southwest Missouri's Longest Known Cave |
Volume 52 Number 4 | 2012 |
The Flippen Cave Gating: A Public-Private Partnership |
Volume 53 | 2013 |
The Missouri Speleological Survey: A Public and Private Effort at the Cooperative Study of Missouri Caves |
Volume 54 | 2014 |
Crevice Cave Biology: A Cave Research Foundation Study 2006-2008 |
Volume 55 | 2016 |
Ozark National Scenic Riverways Bat Survey: Winter 2002-2003 - A Cave Research Foundation Study |
2017 | Caves of the North Fork Basin I | |
2018 | Caves of the North Fork Basin II | |
2018 | History of the Lemp Brewery Caverns and Cherokee Cave | |
2019 | Vadose Speleologenisis in the Pierson Limestone | |
2019 | Caves of the Butler Hollow Mining District | |
2019 | Caves of the Butler Hollow Mining District: Roaring River Drainage | |
2020 | A History of Cliff Cave, St. Louis County | |
2021 | Caves of the Butler Hollow Mining District: Rock Creek and Piney Creek Drainages | |
2021 | Marvel Cave: An Illustrated Reference Guide of Postcards, Photographs & Stereographs | |
2022 | Bear Cave Hollow: Stories of Caves and Karst by Tom Aley | |
Volume 66 | 2022 |
Missouri Show Caves: Past & Present |