Yungang caves, series of magnificent Chinese Buddhist cave temples, created in the 5th century ce during the Six Dynasties period (220–598 ce). They are located about 10 miles (16 km) west of the city of Datong, near the northern border of Shanxi provin
From the early 19th century through the Civil War, caves in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, and Missouri were important sources of nitrates, an essential ingredient of gun powder. Surface or near-surface accumulations of nitrate salts form coatings on rock...
522, Bei (Northern) Wei dynasty; in the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri.(more) The Bei Wei caves at Longmen (including the well-known Guyang and Binyang caves) are intimate in scale and display complex iconography that is elegantly crafted into hard stone. The Buddha ...
Allocrangonyx hubrichti was previously known only from caves and springs in three counties in Missouri and from one well in northern Arkansas. During the d... R Sarver,K Lister - 《Journal of Freshwater Ecology》 被引量: 3发表: 2004年 Three new harvestman species of the genus Philora (Opi...
"What is remarkable is not only the preservation of the mining activity, but also the age and duration of it," said study lead author Brandi MacDonald of the University of Missouri. "We rarely, if ever, get to observe such clear evidence of ochre pigment mining of Paleoindian age in Nor...