Geophysical Detection & Imaging of a Lost Mid-Pleistocene Bone Cave beneath Valley Forge National Historical Park, PA The Continuing Saga of the Port Kennedy Bone Cave

Bechtel TD. 2006. Geophysical Detection & Imaging of a Lost Mid-Pleistocene Bone Cave beneath Valley Forge National Historical Park, PA The Continuing Saga of the Port Kennedy Bone Cave. Pages 1-27. In The Geological Society of America (GSA). Philadelphia, PA

This paper describes a geophysical survey to locate the lost Port Kennedy Bone Cave of Valley Forge Nat. Hist. Park. The cave contains mid-Pleistocene fossils that were collected by famous paleontologists of the late 1800s, and were new to science, with some still found nowhere else. When workers were driven out by flooding, the cave was covered with quarry waste, later industrial asbestos waste, and was lost for over 100 years.

Type
Conference Proceeding Paper
Authors
Bechtel, Timothy
Units
VAFO

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