For nearly 50 years, developments in Missouri survey, speleology and cave technology have been covered in Missouri Speleology, the journal of the MSS. From how to map a cave, to what caves need mapping, from what cave systems exist to proving the existence of cave biota, Missouri Speleology has provided accurate information in an easily readable format.
LISTING OF ISSUES OF MISSOURI SPELEOLOGY
Volume I, Number 1 The Caves of Barry and Benton Counties, Missouri,
January 1959
Volume I, Number 2 The Caves of Boone County, Missouri.
April 1959
Volume I, Number 3 The Caves of Callaway and Camden Counties, Missouri.
July 1959
Volume I, Number 4 The Caves of Carter, Christian, Cole and Crawford Counties,
October 1959 Missouri.
Volume II, Number 1 The Caves of Dallas, Dent and Douglas Counties, Missouri.
January 1960
Volume II, Number 2 The Caves of Franklin County, Missouri.
April 1960.
Volume II, Number 3 The Caves of Gasconade, Greene, Hickory, Howell, Jackson,
July 1960 Jasper,Jefferson, and Laclede Counties, Missouri
Volume II, Number 4 The Caves of Lincoln, Madison, Maries, and Marion Counties,
October 1960 Missouri.
Volume III, Number 1 The Design of a Rangefinder for Cave Mapping.
January 1961
Volume III, Number 2 The Caves of Miller County, Missouri.
April 1961
Volume III, Number 3 The Caves of Moniteau, Morgan, Monroe, and Montgomery
July 1961 Counties, Missouri.
Volume III, Number 4 Caves of Oregon and Osage Counties, Missouri.
October 1961.
Volume IV, Number 1-2 Cave Mapping: A Systematic Approach.
January-April 1962
Volume IV, Number 3 Cave Pearls - Salamanders - Research Cave.
July 1962
Volume IV, Number 4 Caves in the Geologic Column.
October 1962
Volume V, Number 1 The Caves of Phelps County, Missouri.
January 1963
Volume V, Number 2-3 The Caves of Pike County, Missouri.
April-July 1963
Volume V, Number 4 The Dire Wolf in Missouri.
October 1963
Volume VI, Number 1 Stratigraphy of Detrital Fills of Carroll Cave, Camden
January 1964 County, Missouri.
Volume VI, Number 2 Caves of Pulaski County and the MSS Policy on Cave
April 1964 Locations.
Volume VI, Number 3 Cherokee Cave, St. Louis, Missouri.
July 1964
Volume VI, Number 4 Bats/Cherokee Cave.
October 1964
Volume VII, Number 1 Caves of Ralls County, Missouri.
January 1965
Volume VII, Number 2 Caves of St. Charles and St. Clair County, Missouri.
April 1965
Volume VII, Number 3 Caves of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri.
July 1965
Volume VII. Number 4 Fossil Pleistocene Mammals - Onyx Mining.
October 1965
Volume VIII, Number 1 Caves of St. Louis County, Missouri.
January 1966
Volume VIII, Number 2 Memorial Issue: Maurice G. Mehl.
April 1966
Volume VIII, Number 3 10th Anniversary Issue.
July 1966
Volume VIII, Number 4 Caves of Shannon County, Missouri.
October 1966
Volume IX, Number 1 Parasitic Bat Mites - Maze Cave Fauna.
January 1967
Volume IX, Number 2 Caves of Stoddard and Stone County, Missouri.
April 1967
Volume IX, Number 3 Caves of Texas and Warren Counties, Missouri.
July 1967
Volume IX, Number 4 Caves of Washington County
Volume X, Number 1 Geological Papers.
January 1968
Volume X, Number 2 Cave Regions of the Ozarks.
April 1968 (Reprint of Luella Agnes Owen's Book.)
Volume X, Number 3 Guidebook to Selected Caves in Southwestern Missouri.
July 1968
Volume X, Number 4 Guide to the Amphibians of Missouri.
October 1968
Volume XI, Number 1-2 History of the Caves of Camden County, Missouri.
January - April 1970
Volume XI, Number 3 Possible Former Entrance to Devils Icebox, Boone County,
July 1970 Missouri and Historic Caves of St. Louis, Missouri.
Volume XI, Number 4 Caves of Wayne and Wright Counties, Missouri.
October 1970
Volume XII, Number 1 Caves of Jefferson County, Missouri.
April 1971
Volume XII, Number 2 Pit Caves of Jefferson County, Missouri.
April 1971
Volume XII, Number 3 Sandstone Caves of Jefferson County, Missouri.
July 1971
Volume XII, Number 4 Status of the Gray Bat in Missouri Caves.
October 1971
1972 Skipped to bring issues up to date.
Volume XIII, Number 1 Caves of Laclede County, Missouri.
January 1973
Volume XIII, Number 2 An Investigation into Ground Water Pollution in Caves.
April 1973
Volume XIII, Number 3 Report of the Devils Icebox-Rockbridge Park Conservation
July 1973 Task Force.
Volume XIII, Number 4 Geology of Twin Pit Cave, Boone County, Missouri.
October 1973
Volume XIV, Number 1 Meramec Valley Symposium.
January 1974
Volume XIV, Number 2 Groundwater Problems in Southwest Missouri and Northwest
April 1974 Arkansas.
Volume XIV, Number 3 Biological Investigations at Ozark Underground Laboratory.
July 1974
Volume XIV, Number 4 The Invertebrate Fauna of Mystery Cave, Perry County,
October 1974 Missouri.
Volume XV, Number 1 A Pleistocene Fauna from Zoo Cave, Taney County,
January 1975 Missouri.
Volume XV, Number 2 A Checklist of the Invertebrate Species Recorded from
April 1975 Missouri Subterranean Habitats.
Volume XV, Number 3 Caves of Christian County, Missouri. (Eastern Half).
July 1975
Volume XV, Number 4 Caves of Christian County, Missouri. (Western Half).
October 1975
Volume XVI, Number 1-2 Hydrogeologic Controls of Solution of Carbonate Rocks in
January 1976 Christian County, Missouri.
Volume XVI, Number 3 Water Tracer's Cookbook.
July 1976
Volume XVI, Number 4 A Biological Study of Cathedral Cave, Crawford
Fall 1976 County, Missouri.
Volume XVII, Number 1-2 Caves of Reynolds and Shannon Counties, Missouri.
Jan-June 1977
Volume XVII, Number 3-4 Archaeological Investigations: Cave Explorations in the
July-December 1977 Ozark Region of Central Missouri.
Volume XVIII, Numbers 1-4 Ozark Hydrology: A Predictive Model.
Jan-December 1978
Volume XIX, Number 1-2 Hydrogeology of the North Fork Basin.
Jan-June 1979
Volume XIX, Number 3-4 J Harlen Bretz in Missouri.
July-December 1979
Volume XX, Number 1-2 Introduction to Map Reading.
January 1980 (Revised 1992.)
Volume XX, Number 3-4 Beginning Caving, A Guide for Beginners.
July 1980 (Revised and Reprinted August 1992.)
Volume XXI, Number 1-2 An Introduction to Cave Mapping (2nd Ed).
January-June 1981
Volume XXI, Number 3-4 Caves of Crawford County.
July-December 1981
Volume XXII, Number 1-2 Caves of the Jacks Fork Valley.
January-June 1982
Volume XXII, Number 3-4 Caves of the Current River Valley.
July-December 1982
Volume XXIII, Number 1-4 The Wild Caves of Camden County, Missouri.
January-December 1983
Volume XXIV, Number 1-2 Caves of Oregon County, Missouri.
January-June 1984
Volume XXIV, Number 3-4 The Gray Bat in Missouri.
July-August 1984
Volume XXV, Number 1-4 Proceedings of the 1984 National Cave Management
January- December 1985 Symposium,
Volume XXVI, Number 1-2 Remains of Quaternary Vertebrates from Ozark Caves and
January to June 1986 Other Miscellaneous Sites.
Volume XXVI, Number 3-4 Origin and Development of Cave Spring, Shannon County,
July-December 1986 Missouri.
Volume XXVII, Number 1-4 The Commercial Caves of Camden County, Missouri. January - December 1987.
Volume XXVIII, Number 1-4 Mystery Cave
1988
Volume XXIX, Number 1-4 Rimstone River Cave
1989
Volume XXX, Number 1-2 The Effect of Faulting on Missouri Caves
1990
Volume XXX, Number 3-4 1990, The Year of The Cave
Volume XXXI, Number 1-4 The Art of Cave Mapping
1991
Volume XXXII, Number 1-3 Caves of Dent County
1992
Volume XXXII, Number 4 Large Springs of The Upper Current and Jack's Fork Basins,
Volume XXXIII, Number 1-4 Caves and Cave Wildlife in a Mineral Prospecting Area,
1993 Oregon and Shannon Counties, Missouri.
Volume XXXIV, Number 1-2 Morphology of the Stinson Cave System, Lawrence County,
Winter/Spring 1994 Missouri. Geology and Morphology of the Ruark Cave Area,
Lawrence County, Missouri
Volume XXXIV, Number 3-4 Smittle Cave, Wright County, Missouri
Summer/Fall 1994 Welch Cave, Wright County, Missouri
Volume XXXVII Number 1-2 The Wild Caves of Benton County, Missouri.
Volume XXXVII Number 3-4 Project Cavern (The story of a cave-based Jet Propulsion
Lawrence County, Missouri
Volume XXXVIII Number 1-4 Cave Sediments and the Geomorphic History of the Ozarks.
Volume XXXIX Number 1-2 Sedementation in Missouri Caves.
Volume XXXIX Number 3 A Hydrologic and Geochemical Model of the Devils Icebox
Basin.
Volume XXXIX Number 4 Geochemistry of the Springs of Missouri.
Volume XXXX Number 1-4 The Shelter Caves of Barton, Bates and Vernon Counties,
Missouri.
Volume XXXXI Number 1-4 The Great Below (A Geography of Caves by University of
Missouri-Columbia Students, Includes:
*Paradise, Underground, and Frontier: The Cave and
Human Imagination
*The Human Impact of Speleotherms: A Missouri Cavers's
Perspective on Caving, Conservation and Restoration
*From Capitalism to Conservationsism: The Twentieth-
Century Shift in Dominant Perceptions of Missouri Caves
*Caver Characteristics: A Sample from the Chouteau Grotto)
Volume XXXXII, Number 1-2 Geologic Papers
*Geologic Framework of the Ozarks of South-Central
Missouri - Contributions to a Conceptual Model of Karst
*Geologic Controls in the Development of Caves
in the South-Central Ozarks of Missouri
*Variation in the Response of Spring Basins to Storm
Events
Volume XXXXII, Number 3-4 Aqueous Geochemical Study of a Calcite-Depositing Ozark
Creek: Tufa Creek - ShannonCounty, Missouri
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