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Dickson Spring drains about 26 mi2 to Second Creek and is the largest catchment in Monroe County. Water emerges at the base of a cliff in the lower Patton Limestone. Eight significant caves are reported within this basin, and all of the passages are developed in the Patton, Sinks Grove, and Hillsdale units. Several of the entrances receive small streams and are at the contact of the Hillsdale Limestone and the Maccrady Shale. The caves, with the exception of Haynes Cave, are all in the headwaters (southern) part of the drainage basin and are complex from a geologic and hydrologic viewpoint. Most of these caves have received little attention in the last forty years because of access limitations.
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Special thanks are due to Mike Futrell, Thomas Malabad, and Ed McCarthy for help with the cave descriptions and photographs.
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Jones, W.K. (2018). Caves of the Dickson Spring Basin, Monroe County. 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_14
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