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Fig. 4. Caves associated with the (A) Marianna Lowlands and South- 

 west Georgia segments of the Apalachicola Fauna. Georgia sites — (B) 

 Climax Cave and (C) Albany well. 



contact with the younger Suwannee and Marianna limestones (Floridan 

 aquifer). The troglobite records from southwest Georgia were taken 

 from a well at Albany in the heart of the Dougherty Plain and in cave 

 pools at Climax Cave near Climax, Georgia. Climax Cave lies at base 

 of the Pelham Escarpment of the Tipton Upland on the eastern edge of 

 the Dougherty Plain (Beck and Arden 1984). Like caves in the Marianna 

 area, Climax Cave is developed near the contact between the Suwannee 

 Limestone and the Ocala Group limestones (Floridan aquifer) (See Fig. 

 12b in Beck and Arden 1984). 



Means (1977) felt that the two segments were continuous and 

 that the aquatic troglobites could disperse between the two areas wherever 



