The Survey and Improvement of Natural Caverns for Use as Fallout Shelters in North Alabama, 1963, Baily Thomas E. , Mcclain J. R.

Cross Piracy Drainage Development in the Newsome Sinks Area of Alabama, 1963, Varnedoe_jr. , W. W.

Land Snails from the Caves of Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama, 1964, Hubricht, Leslie

The formation of bauxite and karst topography in Eufaula District, Alabama, and Jamaica, West Indies, 1966, Burns Dj,

The formation of bauxite on karst topography in Eufaula District, Alabama, and Jamaica, West Indies, 1966, Clarke Om,

Bauxite deposits are formed on karst topography because the sinkholesentrap aluminous materials subject to laterization. In the Jamaican deposits, these primary aluminous materials are mainly residuum from the White Limestone Formation, but may include some volcanic ash. In the Eufaula deposits, the source materials were kaolinitic claysderived from weathering of crystalline rocks of the Piedmont. The sinkholes provide downward drainage, and deposits formed in them are protected from erosion

Cave-Associated Herpetozoa II: Salamanders of the Genus Gyrinophilus in Alabama Caves, 1968, Cooper John E. , Cooper Martha R.

A New Species of the Pseudoscorpion Genus, Aphrastochthonius (Arachnida, Chelonethida), from a Cave in Alabama, 1968, Muchmore, William B.

A population study of the cave beetle Ptomaphagus loedingi (Coleoptera; Leiodidae; Catopinae)., 1975, Peck Stewart B.

Baited pitfall traps were used in Barclay Cave, Alabama, in 1965 to study a blind Ptomaphagus beetle population. A 40m2 area in the cave yielded 95% of the 897 adult and larval beetles trapped in the cave at 9 stations. This represented a population density of about 13 beetles/m2. Tests of different baits showed decayed meat to be the most attractive. Adults were most abundant in mid-August when substrate conditions were moist, were reproductively active, and were not newly emerged from pupal cells. Larvae were most abundant in late August. The population was studied by mark-recapture methods for 8 years after the pitfall trapping, and it was judged to have recovered to former densities after about 6 to 8 years. The use of traps which kill cave invertebrates is not encouraged for most future cave ecology studies. Population densities of beetles at baits in Cold Spring Cave were found to be 139 adults/m2 in 1968, and to much lower in three later years.

The effect of cave entrances on the distribution of cave-inhabiting terrestrial Arthropods., 1976, Peck Stewart B.

Populations of cave invertebrates are generally considered to be food-limited. The cave entrance is a major source of food input into the community in the form of decaying organic matter. Thus, the densities of scavenging terrestrial cave invertebrates should be related to the distance from the cave entrance because this represents a measure of food abundance. A test showed this expectation to be true in Crossings Cave, Alabama. A population density peak occurred 10 m inside the cave where the dark zone and detritus infall regions meet. The greatest population peak occurred at 100 m where densities of crickets and their guano are highest. The pattern should hold for most caves, but the actual distances will vary in each site depending on its circumstances. When the fauna was removed from the cave, the remnant had not regained community equilibrium a year later. Removal of the dominant scavenger, a milliped, allowed other species populations to expand because of decreased competitions.

Lineaments and the Origin of Caves in the Cumberland Plateau of Alabama, 1977, Wilson, James R.

Confederate Saltpeter Mining in Northern Alabama, 1981, Smith, Marion O.

The Cave Fauna of Alabama: Part I: The Terrestrial Invertebrates (Excluding Insects), 1989, Peck, Stewart B.

Distribution and Abundance of Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in Coastal Plain Caves of Southern Alabama, 1992, Best Troy L. , Carey Steven D. , Caesar Katherine G. , Henry Travis Hill

The Cave Fauna of Alabama. Part II: The Insects, 1995, Peck, Stewart B.

The Chronology of Early Agriculture and Intensive Mineral Mining in the Salts Cave and Mammoth Cave Region, Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, 1996, Kennedy, M. C. , Watson, P. Jo.

Thermography was used to locate hydrological “features” in karst watersheds. The approach was demonstrated by flying a thermal camera over the Keel Mountain area of north Alabama. Known features were identified and features not on United State Geological Survey topographic maps and unknown to the authors were discovered. Springs with flow rates less than 3 liters/sec and a region of strong infiltration in a losing stream were easily identified.