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Luray Caverns, previously Luray Cave, is a cave just west of Luray, Virginia, United States, which has drawn many visitors since its discovery in 1878. The cavern system is adorned with speleothems such as columns, mud flows, stalactites , stalagmites , flowstone , and mirrored pools.
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Talus caves are usually short, although the longest have up to several kilometers of explorable passages. [1] Examples of long talus caves include Bodagrottorna [] in Hälsingland, Sweden, with 2,600 metres (8,500 ft) of passage, [8] [5] the Touchy Sword of Damocles cave in New York, United States with over 4,000 metres (13,000 ft) of passage, [2]: 55 [9] and Merrills-Barn Door-And-The Hole ...
By mid-2019, the cave was found to be connected by its underground river with a nearby cave called Hang Thung. This increases the potential volume of the cave by more than 1,600,000 m 3 (57,000,000 cu ft). [15] The cave contains some of the tallest known stalagmites in the world, which are up to 80 m (260 ft) tall. [16]
Kazumura Cave is a lava tube and has been surveyed at 40.7 miles (65.5 km) long and 3,614 feet (1,102 m) deep making it the longest and deepest lava tube in the world. [ note 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The cave is located on the island of Hawaiʻi on the eastern slope of Kīlauea .
Concerts were stopped due to vandalism in the caves in 2002, but were started again in 2006. Chris Chameleon performed in the caves with the Drakensberg Boys' Choir as part of the InniBos Arts Festival in 2012. The local Stevenson-Hamilton Pipe Band also performed in the caves on 10-03-2013 as part of World Bagpipe Day celebrations.
The cave is formed in 100-million-year-old Segovia Limestone, of the Edwards Group. The formation of the cave itself probably occurred between 1.5 and 5 million years ago. The cave is formed primarily along joints, which allowed gases to rise up from depths of around 1.5 mi (2.4 km) to then depths of about 300 ft (91 m).
The cave became known as Good's Cave, named for Emmanuel Good, the owner of the farm on which the cave was located. [ 1 ] In 1931, Don Bell, a lawyer from Bellevue , discovered a series of passageways and rooms in the cave which led to an underground river, called Ole' Mist'ry River, which is part of the vast groundwater system that underlies ...