EXAMINING THE PRESENT DAY HYDROLOGICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN HORN HOLLOW AND CAVE BRANCH, AND HOW IT HAS EVOLVED OVER TIME

Joint South-Central and North-Central Sections, both conducting their 41st Annual Meeting (11–13 April 2007)
Paper No. 3-6

Presentation Time: 11:20 AM-11:40 AM

EXAMINING THE PRESENT DAY HYDROLOGICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN HORN HOLLOW AND CAVE BRANCH, AND HOW IT HAS EVOLVED OVER TIME
RYAN, G. Garrett, geology, University of Akron, 866 beardsley st, Akron, OH 44311, georyan@hotmail.com This study will focus on the Cave Branch- Horn Hollow drainage basin located in Carter Caves State park, Carter Caves, Kentucky. The project will explore the present day hydrological connection between Horn Hollow and Cave Branch, how it has evolved over time, and the role of the caves in this process. Examination of groundwater flow, and chemical composition, through this karst aquifer will yield important information that can be used to study the formation of paleoflow routes that are now abandoned cave conduits. Additional studies will be done here to determine if the sediments found in the upper-level conduits, can be correlated to the down-cutting of Tygart's Creek, and thus to the Pleistocene-Pliocene incision of the Ohio River.
Joint South-Central and North-Central Sections, both conducting their 41st Annual Meeting (11–13 April 2007) General Information for this Meeting

Session No. 3 Applied Hydrogeology and Geophysics: Innovative Approaches to Old Challenges Kansas Union, University of Kansas: Alderson Auditorium 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 39, No. 3, p. 3
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