Cumberland Gap National Historic Park

Tongass National Forest Miscellaneous Cave Resource Inventory Water Surface Moisture______Dripping______Cave Name: ______Flowing______Stations Inventoried:______Pool (note size) (example: A1-10; XJ 10-15; Z1-25) <1 cubic foot >1 cubic foot Recorder:______flood water line______Inventory date:______paleo water line______Other personnel:______Airflow Airflow______Instructions: (indicate direction and velocity (example: B45-B46, strong air)

Inventory information is tied to the nearest survey station. At each Floor (Note: every station must have at least one floor feature) station to be inventoried, scan the area halfway between the last Sediment/soil______survey station and the next survey station for items to be inventoried. Breakdown______Work your way through the inventory sheet recording at which station Bedrock______the items are located. The first time there is an entry for a category, Secondary deposits______Pit______record the survey designation and number (ex. BA35). When entering another station to a category that has a previous entry, there Ceiling is no need to enter the same survey prefix, just the number (BA35, Dome______36, 38). If you are entering a new survey prefix then list the prefix & Ceiling channel______station number (BA35, X13, ZB27). If you are recording consecutive Bell hole______survey stations, instead of listing each station, (A1, 2, 3, 4) you can Natural bridge______record them as A1-4. Use only commas or dashes between numbers. If you have photographed the feature note that with a /P Conservation Flowstone shoes required______Gloves off area______Contents by page: Restoration projects______1. Cover sheet Other______2. Miscellaneous 3. Formations Obstacles 4. Geology I Crawl (anything difficult for rescue)______5. Geology II Unropped climb or chimney ______6. Biology Pit requiring rope (describe rigging, rope length, pit depth, quality of rope) 7. Cultural Other:______Computer entry date:______Data entry person/s:______Formations Calcite Geology Flowstone______Bedrock (structural) Stalactite Fault (strike/dip)______deflected______Folds______soda straw______Slickensides ______Stalagmite______Joints (strike/dip)______Column______Styolites______Popcorn______Triangular shaped cross section______Boxwork______Calcite coating______Bedrock (sedimentary rock characteristics) Calcite crust______Cross bedding______Drapery______Bedding planes (well defined)______Helictite______Distinctive bedding contacts______Heligmite______Oolites______Cave pearl______Chert nodules______Calcite rafts______Chert layers/beds______Rimstone dam______Shale beds______Spar______Sandstone beds______Sheild______Moonmilk______Cave Sediments (when possible note thickness in inches or feet) Paleo Aragonite Clay______Stalagmite______Mud cracks______Stalactite______Ripple marks______Other______Consolidated sand/gravel______Quartz pebbles______Gypsum interbedded sand/gravel/mud______Crust______Flower______Recent Cotton/Hair______Clay______Rope______Mud ______Needles______Mud spatter cups______Mud cracks______Hydromagnesite Ripple marks______balloon______Sand______moonmilk______Gravel______Sand/gravel______Notes:______Quartz pebbles______Interbedded sand/gravel/mud______Cobbles______Rock flour______

Geology II Vertebrates Manganese Bat______Coating______Bat bones______Dendrites______Bat guano______Bat scratches______Solution/Corrosion features Bones (specify if possible)______Scallops______Rillenkarren______Mammals______Ceiling pendants______Reptiles______Ceiling/wall cusps______Amphibian______Corrosion residues______Birds (specify if possible)______Flutted walls______Other______Corrasion features ______Potholes Invertebrates: Fossils Amphipods______Horn coral______Beetles______Colonial Centipede______Coral______Crickets______Brachiopods______Diplurans______Bryozoans______Isopods______Crinoids______Harvestman (Daddy long-legs)______Blastoids______Amphipods______Cephlapods______Millipede______Gastropods______Springtails______Fossil hash______Spider______Bones______Other______Teeth______Other______Microbial colonies (color/size)______Notes______Notes: ______

Biology Cultural Artifacts______

Charcoal______

Pictographs______

Petroglyphs______

Mud glyphs______

Signatures (historic)______

Graffitti______

Other______