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  2. Crevice Cave - Wikipedia

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    Crevice Cave is a cave located in Perry County in the state of Missouri. [1] It is the longest cave in Missouri and one of the longest caves in the United States.

  3. List of caves in Missouri - Wikipedia

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    Bluff Dweller's Cave (1927) - McDonald County; Bridal Cave (1948) - Camden County; Crevice Cave - Perry County; Crystal Cave (1893) Current River Cavern (1940) - Carter County; Devils Well (1954) - Shannon County; Devil’s Icebox Cave - Boone County; Fantastic Caverns (1862) - Greene County; Friede's Cave (AKA Saltpeter Cave) (before 1865 ...

  4. Mortuary cave - Wikipedia

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    A mortuary cave or a mortuary sinkhole, alternately burial cave, burial sinkhole, or crevice interment, is a naturally formed cavity in the earth that is intentionally used by humans as a cache for dead bodies.

  5. List of longest caves in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Mammoth Cave, the longest known cave system in the world. The following is a list of the longest caves in the United States per length (> 50 km) of documented passageways. . Many passageways are still being discovered; this list is based on the latest verifiable

  6. Oliarus polyphemus - Wikipedia

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    This species is capable of colonizing newly formed lava tubes and crevice networks relatively quickly after they are formed by a volcanic eruption. For example, cave planthoppers have been present in Kaumana Cave (which was created by a 1888 Mauna Loa eruption) since at least 1972 and likely much longer. [5]

  7. Crevasse - Wikipedia

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    Transverse crevasses, Chugach State Park, Alaska A crevasse is a deep crack that forms in a glacier or ice sheet. Crevasses form as a result of the movement and resulting stress associated with the shear stress generated when two semi-rigid pieces above a plastic substrate have different rates of movement.

  8. Cave of Swallows - Wikipedia

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    The cave floor and walls are inhabited by millipedes, scorpions, insects, snakes and birds. From the floor at the bottom of the main shaft, there is a series of narrow pits known as "The Crevice", totalling some 140 m (460 ft), which brings the total depth of the cave to 515 m (1,690 ft). [4]

  9. Lava cave - Wikipedia

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    A lava cave is any cave formed in volcanic rock, though it typically means caves formed by volcanic processes, which are more properly termed volcanic caves. Sea caves , and other sorts of erosional and crevice caves, may be formed in volcanic rocks, but through non-volcanic processes and usually long after the volcanic rock was emplaced.