South China Caves

A very informative and well-illustrated report on the March 1988 joint expedition of the Institute of Karst Geology, the Speleological Society of South China Normal University, and the Cave Research Foundation.

This report focuses on the high karst plateau in northern Guangdong Province, the slope mountain karst within Hunan Province, and the mature tower karst area in Guangxi Province of southern China.  These areas are rich in caves and have the potential to contain the deepest caves in the world.

An overview of the geology of these areas is included along with chapters that cover speleothems, cave fauna, cave management and conservation, karst management, and the background of modern Chinese speleology.  Readers will also enjoy Michael Ray Taylor's light-hearted excerpts from his surface diary of the people and places of this area.

Edited by Rondal Rex Bridgemon and Karen Bradley Lindsley
Copyright 1991
ISBN:  0-939748-27-4
62 pages, B & W