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31 gulley from Devil's Cave (see below)• It is a short crawlway with a small surface opening at the far _--_ 1,_,_ end. The cave is formed in the Epler Dolomite. 3s'74 *"'""*'/_'"_ • ( Stillwater Cave/]2 (Devil's Cave) 41 °01.6'N;74 °52.2'W, 540, <strong>New</strong>ton West r,_ 2* : ,,v,-, SUSSEX COUNTY CAVERNS * Devil's Cave is half a mile southeast <strong>of</strong> Stillwater, :_,::!_:_0.:-: about 300 yards from the road up a narrow gulley. "....... m.|C#ULT z I The entranee is a slit about six feet high which opens into a large room. The passage eontinues on the far ' o ' s ' io _ side, but it is blocked with breakdown. Light pene- I : trates from several openings in the ceiling. This cave 41 °01. is formed TN;74 in°52.2'W, the Epler 540, Dolom <strong>New</strong>ton ite2 West s _/ Quadrangle Stillwater Talus Cave Cave//3 is a (Talus series Cave) <strong>of</strong> openings in the next _ gnlley along the road from Devil's Cave. It is formed in the Epler Dolomite28 Stillwater Cave//4 (Twist Cave) 41 °01.5'N;74 °52.3'W, 540, <strong>New</strong>ton West Quadrangle Dead Man's Cave. The entrance is a horizontal slit ........ which curves down and around to a room. It is • i(_ cavE_ f formed in the Epler Dolom _te.: Sussex County Caverns #1 41 00.6N;74 45.3 W, 590, <strong>New</strong>ton West Quadrangle, C, County <strong>of</strong> Sussex Sussex County Caverns /]1 (Fig. 26) was opened in July <strong>of</strong> 1961 when about 25 feet <strong>of</strong> a limestone cliff was blasted away to make room for a new building at the Sussex County Road Camp on Route,206 a mile Twist north Cave <strong>of</strong> is Andover. about 70 The yards entrance up the is gulley about three from _ feet in diameter. After a vertical drop <strong>of</strong> five feet, the cave consists <strong>of</strong> a rubble-floored passage leading downward for 40 feet to the water table. The cave color which was slightly fluorescent yellow and blue, contained several stalactites, draperies hanging from and strongly phosphorescent green. Most <strong>of</strong> the flowthe ceiling, and one small column. Most <strong>of</strong> these stone consisted <strong>of</strong> toothed curtains adhering to the were vandalized shortly after the <strong>New</strong>ark Evening breakdown <strong>of</strong> the floor. Later these formations were <strong>New</strong>s described the discovery. Later, a drain from vandalized. A drain from the garage ro<strong>of</strong> was conthe garage ro<strong>of</strong> was constructed into the cave en- structed into this cave, which is also in the Allentown trance• The cave is in the Allentown Formation. 4 D°l°mite'_5 Swimming Pool Cave 40°59.7'N;74°49.7'W, 600, Sussex County Caverns//2 4I °00. 6'N; 74°45.3'W, Tranquility Quadrangle, Fl, PR, Mrs. Collins 590, <strong>New</strong>ton West Quadrangle, C, County o[ This cave (Plate 7) is located three miles north- Sussex east <strong>of</strong> Johnsonburg near Shotwell Cave. An artificial This cave (Fig. 26) is located about 50 feet north pond is directly below the entrance; the water corn<strong>of</strong> Sussex County Caverns #1; it was opened by exca- pletely floods the cave except during periods <strong>of</strong> exvation in October <strong>of</strong> 1961. A constricted vertical en- ceptional drought (as in late Fall <strong>of</strong> 1957 and 1963). trance pit about seven feet deep leads to a crawlway The cave is both geologically and biologically intergoing down at a 30 ° angle for about twenty feet. This esting. Quartz crystals were once found here in passage opens into a room twelve feet wide, twenty considerable numbers and the twilight zone <strong>of</strong> the feet long, and up to fifteen feet high. At one side <strong>of</strong> cave has an exceptionally rich fauna- several species the room a thirteen-foot-deep pit was found leading <strong>of</strong> salamanders, beetles, water striders, small crusdown to a pool. taceans, frogs, spiders, and cave crickets. This cave, A number <strong>of</strong> speleothems were noted on the initial which is in the Rickenbach Formation, has 400 feet exploration. Many formations had a reddish-brown <strong>of</strong> passages. 25,27,59,65,67 NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY