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Culverson Creek Cave is an active stream cave with a large surface catchment of 42 mi2 (109 km2). The cave is in the Union Limestone and discharges to springs along Spring Creek. Because of the large surface catchment and some partial blockages along the passages, the cave is subject to flooding. There are ten entrances, large passages, and numerous streams, with a total surveyed length of 20.1 miles (32.4 km).
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Many people helped with the Culverson project, and without their help it would have been impossible—thanks to all. Those who helped on the survey, over one hundred, are listed on the Culverson map. Two friends I would like to especially thanks are William Royster for his development of the place names within the cave system along with the text of the Rockwell Ward story of Dream Lake and William Balfour who helped in many ways including his assistance drawing the map.
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Lucas, P.C. (2018). The Culverson Creek Cave System. In: White, W. (eds) Caves and Karst of the Greenbrier Valley in West Virginia. Cave and Karst Systems of the World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65801-8_10
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