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The segment of the Appalachian karst known as the Greenbrier karst is located in the lower valley of the Greenbrier River in southeastern West Virginia. The karst is developed in the Mississippian Greenbrier Limestone which thickens from 100 to 365 m northeast to southwest. The region can be subdivided into drainage basins which drain by subterranean routes to big springs. The Greenbrier karst contains more than 2000 caves of which 24 have surveyed lengths exceeding 5 km. The accumulated length of those 24 caves is 503.7 km.
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White, W.B. (2018). The Greenbrier Karst. 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_1
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