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Jewel Cave National Monument contains Jewel Cave, currently the fifth longest cave in the world and second longest cave in the United States, with 220.01 miles (354.07 km) of mapped passageways as of May 2024. [3] [4] [5] It is located approximately 13 miles (21 km) west of the town of Custer in Black Hills of South Dakota.
Frostwork in Jewel Cave, South Dakota. Architectural "frost-work" in carved stone, on the Diana Fountain, London, c. 1690. In geology, frostwork is a type of speleothem (cave formation) with acicular ("needle-like") growths almost always composed of aragonite (a polymorph of calcite) or calcite replaced aragonite. [1] It is a variety of anthodite.
The Mojave Desert has more than 200 endemic plants. [7] A significant habitat of the Joshua Tree is in the western portion of the monument. [10] The majority of the area (330,000 acres) was designated as the Piute/Eldorado Area of Critical Environmental Concern in 1996 to conserve critical habitat for the threatened desert tortoise. [15] [16]
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Caves are found around the world. The largest form in areas of karst landforms whose rocks dissolve easily. 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.
Jan and Herb Conn, Dave Schnute and Dwight Deal in the Jewel Cave, 1959. Jan in Janny's Cranny, [28] [29] Jewel Cave, 1959. Dwight Deal, Jan and Herb Conn in the Visitor's Center of Jewel Cave National Monument in 1989 on the 30th anniversary of the Deal-Conn exploration effort. In the background Herb's maps of the cave.
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