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Preferable conditions for karst cave formation are adequate precipitation, enough plants and animals to produce ample carbon dioxide, and a landscape of gentle hills which drains slowly. [ citation needed ] The highest concentrations of long caves in the world are found in the Pennyroyal Plateau of southern Kentucky , United States, in the ...
The depth value is measured from the highest to the lowest accessible cave point. # Name Depth (m) Length (km) Country coordinates 1 Krubera-Voronja Cave:
Part of the interior with a terraced cascade and three standing and climbing cave explorers wearing safety equipment. Ogof Ffynnon Ddu (Welsh for cave of the black spring), also known informally as OFD, is a cave under a hillside in the area surrounding Penwyllt in the Upper Swansea Valley in South Wales. It is the second longest cave in Wales ...
Cuevas del Drach Martel -Pioneer of cave exploration. The Caves of Drach (modern Catalan spelling: Coves del Drac [ˈkɔβəz ðəl ˈdɾak]; Spanish: Cuevas del Drach; lit. ' Dragon caves ') are four great caves that are located in the island of Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, [1] extending to a depth of 25 m and reaching approximately 4 km in length. [1]
Al Nahwa Cave (Arabic: كهف النحوه), also known as Kahf Aldaaba (كهف الدابة), is a cave and archaeological site located in Nahwa, northern Khor Fakkan, in the Emirate of Sharjah. Archaeological remains were discovered here in the 1930s.
The Egyptians believed that in the underworld, the Duat, there were at least twelve caves and caverns inhabited by terrible deities and supernatural creatures that would feed on the souls of the wicked.
Kleine Feldhofer Grotte was a karstic limestone cave and a paleoanthropologic site in the Neander Valley in western Germany. In August 1856, the Neanderthal type specimen was unearthed from the cave. Miners uncovered a skull cap and a number of skeletal bones to be labeled Neanderthal. The bones belong to at least three distinct individuals.
The Greek inscription found at the cave ensemble; "ʿĒraklēs [ʾenth]ade katoikei, mēthen eiselthoi kakon". "Herakles resides here, nothing evil may enter" The Karaftu caves [a] (Persian: کرفتو,Kurdish: کەرەفتوو) are an ensemble of artificially cut rock chambers located between Saqqez and Divandarreh, Kurdistan province, Iran.