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Author Diech, Cajus G., author.

Title Sophie's Cave (Germany) -- a late Pleistocene cave bear den / authored by Cajus G. Diedrich.

Publication Info. Sharjah, U.A.E. : Bentham Science Publishers Ltd., 2015.

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Series Famous planet Earth caves ; volume 1
Famous planet Earth caves ; volume 1.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents FOREWORD ; PREFACE ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; COLLECTIONS ; CONTENT ; INTRODUCTION ; LATE PLEISTOCENE CAVE BEAR DENS IN UPPER FRANCONIA (SOUTHERN GERMANY); THE SOPHIE'S CAVE CAVE BEAR DEN BESIDES RABENSTEIN CASTLE; Sophie's Cave Discovery and History; The New Cave Research; Renaming of the Confusing Cave Part Names; The Oldest Preserved Show Cave Lighting System Ceramic Lamps in Germany; Writing Tools and Militaria of the Bavarian King Ludwigs's I Time; REFERENCES; GEOLOGY OF THE CAVE ROCKS IN UPPER FRANCONIA ; GENERAL GEOLOGY OF CAVE-RICH UPPER FRANCONIA.
The White-Jura Dolomite Reef-Lagoon Rocks (155-150 My)The Sponge Patch Reef Fossils from Sophie's Cave; REFERENCES; PLIO- TO MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE SEDIMENTOLOGY, CAVE GENESIS AND AILSBACH VALLEY GEOMORPHOLOGY ; PLIOCENE/EARLY PLEISTOCENE (5.3-1.8 MY) -- CAVE GENESIS/ REFILL; Earth Quake Signs in Sediments; LATE EARLY PLEISTOCENE (1.8-0.8 MY)? -- FURTHER CAVE REFILL; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE (780.000-200.000 BP) -- ANTE-AILSBACH RIVER TERRACE; The Oldest Middle Pleistocene Marten Footprints -- First Small Carnivore Den; LATE MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE (?200.000-113.000 BP) -- MASSIVE EROSION; REFERENCES.
THE EARLY/MIDDLE LATE PLEISTOCENE CAVE BEAR DEN EARLY/MIDDLE LATE PLEISTOCENE (113.000-32.000 BP, MIS 5D-3) -- FIRST CAVE BEAR DEN; The Small Cave Bear Subspecies Composite Skeleton "Benno"; Small Cave Bear Carcasses and Bones from the Bear's Passage; Small Cave Bear Carcasses and Bones from the Reindeer Hall (Bone Field); Cave Bear Carcasses, Bones and Hibernation Nests in the Millionary Hall; Dating of the Cave Bear Population of the Bear's Passage, Reindeer Hall/Millionary Hall; Pathologies and Illnesses of Small Cave Bears; REFERENCES.
LION, HYENA WOLF, WEASEL AND PORCUPINE CAVE DWELLERS -- CAVE BEAR KILLERS AND SCAVENGERS CARCASS AND BONE TAPHONOMY OF SMALL CAVE BEARS; Ice Age Steppe Lions as Cave Bear Killers and Soft Tissue Feeders; Ice Age Spotted Hyenas as Cave Bear Carcass Decomposers and Bone Crushers; The Wolf Den and Faecal Area in the Bear's Passage; WEASEL SKELETON IN THE BEAR'S PASSAGE -- AN ICE AGE WEASEL DEN WITHIN THE SOPHIE'S CAVE; THE LAST PORCUPINES OF EUROPE; THE EARLY/MIDDLE LATE PLEISTOCENE (MIS 5D-3) BOREAL FOREST PREDATORS AND GUILD; REFERENCES.
THE FINAL LATE PLEISTOCENE CAVE BEAR AND SPORADIC CARNIVORE (HYENA AND WOLF) DEN FINAL MIDDLE LATE PLEISTOCENE (32.000-24.000 BP, MIS 3-2) -- LARGEST CAVE BEARS; The Largest Cave Bear Species Ursus Ingressus ; Lions as Main Cave Bear Cub Killers; The Ice Age Spotted Hyena Den Ahornloch Hall; A New Sporadic Wolf Den; FINAL LATE PLEISTOCENE (AROUND 19.000 BP, MIS 2) -- LAST MAXIMUM GLACIATION (LGM) ; REFERENCES; LATE PLEISTOCENE ARCHAEOLOGY ; NEANDERTHALS IN UPPER FRANCONIA; FIRST CAVE BEAR HUNTERS -- LATE PALAEOLITHIC EARLY GRAVETTIANS (AROUND 30.000 BP).
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Subject Caves -- Germany.
Caves.
Germany.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Diedrich, Cajus G. Famous Planet Earth Caves: Sophie's Cave - a Late Pleistocene cave bear den. Sharjah : Bentham Science Publishers, ©2014 9781681080017
ISBN 9781681080000 electronic book
1681080001 electronic book
9781681080017