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  2. Forbidden Caverns - Wikipedia

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    Forbidden Caverns Forbidden Caverns. Forbidden Caverns is a set of caverns and tourist attraction in Sevierville, Tennessee, near the Smoky Mountains. Flint from these caverns was used by the Eastern Woodland Indians to create arrowheads, knives, and scrapers. The cave also contains a large wall of rare cave onyx. In the early twentieth century ...

  3. List of caves in Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    Raccoon Mountain Caverns: Hamilton County: 5.5 miles (8.9 km) 1853 Only place in the world where Nesticus furtivus (also known as the Crystal Caverns Cave Spider) is found. [15] Ruby Falls: Hamilton County: 700 feet (210 m) 1928 Contains tallest and deepest subterranean waterfall open to the public in the United States at 145 feet (44 m) tall. [16]

  4. List of caves in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Craighead Caverns - also called Lost Sea [1] Cumberland Caverns; Devilstep Hollow Cave; Dunbar Cave; Forbidden Caverns; Hubbard's Cave; Lookout Mountain Caverns; Lost Cove Cave; Nickajack Cave; Raccoon Mountain Caverns; Rumbling Falls Cave; Ruby Falls; Snail Shell Cave; Tuckaleechee Caverns

  5. Category:Caves of Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    Forbidden Caverns; H. Hubbard's Cave; J. Jaybird Cave; L. Lookout Mountain Caverns; ... Tuckaleechee Caverns This page was last edited on 14 October 2017, at 18:28 ...

  6. Anchialine system - Wikipedia

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    An anchialine system (/ ˈ æ ŋ k i ə l aɪ n /, from Greek ankhialos 'near the sea') is a landlocked body of water with a subterranean connection to the ocean.Depending on its formation, these systems can exist in one of two primary forms: pools or caves.

  7. Cavern deities of the underworld - Wikipedia

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    The first seven caverns contained groups of three mummiform and three anthropomorphic deities, two male and one female in each triad. From the 8th to the 20th cavern, one would find divinities in variable numbers: in the 8th, for example, there were seven groups along with individual divinities, and at least twenty of them in the 9th. [ 4 ]

  8. Lechuguilla Cave - Wikipedia

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    Stalagmites, stalactites, and draperies by a pool. Lechuguilla Cave offers more than extreme size. It holds a variety of rare speleothems, including lemon-yellow sulfur deposits, 20-foot (6.1 m) gypsum chandeliers, 20-foot (6.1 m) gypsum hairs and beards, 15-foot (4.6 m) soda straws, hydromagnesite balloons, cave pearls, subaqueous helictites, rusticles, U-loops, and J-loops.

  9. List of caves in Greece - Wikipedia

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    The deepest caves in Greece in order of depth are: Cave of the Lion, Trou de Leon (in French) in the Lefka Ori mountains, Crete.Explored depth −1,110m (2008) ending in a sump but exploration of leads is ongoing.