Focusing on glaciation and speleogenesis in the region of New York and New England this book
serves as an example of a karst region that has experienced large-scale continental glaciation.
It reviews the literature on the controls of glaciation on karst development exploring
examples from the marbles of the Adirondacks New England and eastern New York the Ordovician
strata of northern New York and the Siluro-Devonian strata of central New York. Each of these
areas is examined in detail demonstrating the evolution of thought on glaciated karst through
case studies of individual caves as well as larger cave systems. Additionally this book
describes the geology and glaciation the evolution of karst landscapes from pre-glacial times
to the present and human interaction with the caves in the region.
