Cave inventory
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The purpose of this page and the ones it links to is to provide a detailed description of cave inventory items which Guadalupe Mountain cavers are likely to encounter. The basis of this inventory list is the Carlsbad Cavern National Park Cave Inventory Form which is used by most land managers in the Guads and is a useful collection of common inventory items for the Guads anyway.
If you are a caver who works in the Guads, you may find this inventory page and its detailed descriptions to be of use to you, especially if you are asked to perform an inventory for a government agency. If you would like to help develop or improve on this inventory, you must be granted access to the Wiki. To do this, send an email to William Tucker or the LAG webmaster and ask for an account.
This inventory is not intended to be a comprehensive cave inventory for any cave in the world. It is specifically intended for cave inventory in the Guadalupe Mountain caves. And even more specifically, it is designed to aid cavers in filling out the Carlsbad Cavern National Park Cave Inventory Form. Detailed descriptions and photographs should be representative of what is likely to be encountered in the Guads. Links are provided for each entry on the form with a page for detailed explanations and photographs of that particular entry.
Please be certain that you have the rights to all text and photographs that you include here. Do not copy other peoples' creative works. Also, out of concern for the caves, cave names are not included - there is no reason to identify the location of a photograph, just the type of resource shown. Caves and their contents are protected under the Federal Cave Resources Protection Act.
If you are a novice at cave inventory, you may wish to read the introduction to cave inventory.
Contents |
Carlsbad Cavern National Park Cave Inventory Form
Miscellaneous
Water
Airflow
- Airflow (Indicate direction and velocity. Example: B45 to B46, faint)
Floor
(!note every station must have at least one floor feature!)
Conservation
- Flowstone shoes required
- Gloves off area
- Restoration projects
- Other
Obstacles
- Crawl anything difficult for a rescue litter
- Unroped climb or chimney
- Pit requiring rope (describe rigging, rope length, pit depth, quality of rope)
- Other
Formations 1
Calcite
- Flowstone
- Stalactite
- Stalagmite
- Column
- Popcorn
- Bell Canopy
- Boxwork
- Calcite Coating
- Calcite Crust
- Coral Pipes
- Coral Stalagmite
- Conulite
- Drapery
- Drip Pit Lining
- Folia
- Helictite
- Mammillary
- Pearl
- Pool Finger
- Raft
- Raft Cone
- Rim
- Rimstone Dam
- Shelfstone
- Spar
- Shield
- Splash Ring
- Tray
Formations 2
Aragonite
Gypsum
- Beds, Massive
- Coating
- Cotton/Hair
- Chandelier
- Crust
- Crystal
- Flower
- Granular
- Needle
- Raft
- Rim
- Stalagmite
Hydromagnesite
Geology 1
Bedrock
- Backreef
- Massive
- Forereef
- Breccia
- Dike
- Bedded Siltstone or Sandstone
- Pisolites
- Sand or Silt pods
- Sandstone Ripple Marks
Fossils
Clays
Corrosion Residue
(include thickness if possible)
Iron
Geology 2
Karren
Manganese
[[Silica {Inventory)|]]
- [[Silica {Inventory)/Quartz|Quartz]]
- [[Silica {Inventory)/Rock Flour|Rock Flour]]
- [[Silica {Inventory)/Siltcicle|Siltcicle]]
- [[Silica {Inventory)/Silt Hoodoo|Silt Hoodoo]]
Sulfates
Sulfur
Phosphate
Uranium
Biology
Vertebrate
Invertebrates
- Beetles
- Centipede
- Crickets
- Diplurans
- Harvestman
- Isopod
- Millipede
- Pseudoscorpion
- Spiders
- Springtails
- Other Invertebrates
- Microbial Colonies (color/size)
Cultural
Artifacts
(record artifacts/approximate age)
Graffiti
(record graffiti/approximate age)
