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List of Plates
Plate 1. Feeders: side feeders with rising wall channels. 41
Plate 2. Feeders: side feeders with ear-like or domed orifices. 42
Plate 3. Feeders: point features in passage floors. 43
Plate 4. Feeders: point features in passage floors and lower walls. 44
Plate 5. Feeders: fissure- and rift-like feeders in passage floors. 45
Plate 6. Rising chains of ceiling cupolas and upward-convex arches, ceiling channels and serial cupolas in the
ceiling apex.
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Plate 7. Ceiling channels and cupolas in linear series. 47
Plate 8. Outlets with connecting ceiling channels or formed within a ceiling channel. 48
Plate 9. Outlets in cupolas and domepits. 49
Plate 10. Outlets breaching to the upper discharge boundary. 50
Plate 11. Mega-outlets in Lechuguilla Cave, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico, USA. 50
Plate 12. Bedrock partitions between closely-spaced passages in maze caves. 51
Plate 13. Partitions by carbonate fill of fractures in Zoloushka Cave, western Ukraine. 51
Plate 14. Hypogenic morphology in Mystery Cave, Minnesota, USA. 52
Plate 16. Morphological and geological characteristics of Yellow Jacket Cave, Dark Canyon, Guadalupe
Mountains, New Mexico, USA.
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Plate 17. Hypogenic morphology in Coffee Cave, New Mexico, USA. 54
Plate 18. Hypogenic morphology in Coffee Cave, New Mexico, USA. 55
Plate 19. Megasinkholes (shafts) associated with hydrothermal systems, with travertine deposition near water
table.
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List of Tables
TABLE 1
Characterization of cave patterns and porosity in unconfined versus confined aquifers 85
TABLE 2
Average characteristics of conduit patterns for unconfined and confined settings 86
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