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  2. Indian Echo Caverns - Wikipedia

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    Indian Echo Caverns is a historic show cave in Derry Township, Dauphin County near Hershey and Hummelstown, Pennsylvania in the United States. [1] [2] The caverns were mentioned in an article by the Philadelphia Philosophical Society as early as the 1700s.

  3. Rock shelter - Wikipedia

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    A rock shelter (also rockhouse, crepuscular cave, bluff shelter, or abri) is a shallow cave-like opening at the base of a bluff or cliff. In contrast to solutional caves ( karst ), which are often many miles long or wide, rock shelters are almost always modest in size and extent.

  4. Pahasapa Formation - Wikipedia

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    Wind Cave is known for its calcite box work, a distinctive speleothem, and its passages that intersect with paleocave fill, indicating Mississippian-era caves that developed and then were flooded with sediment. [10] The Madison aquifer, the most important aquifer in South Dakota, is contained within the upper sections of the Pahasapa formation ...

  5. Cave digging - Wikipedia

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    Cave digging is the practice of enlarging openings of undiscovered caves to allow entry. Cave digging usually begins with a survey of mountains and valleys in karst topography searching for new caves , with the goal of creating accessible entrances. [ 1 ]

  6. Caving - Wikipedia

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    Caving in a muddy section of Black Chasm Cave in California Stephens Gap, a vertical cave in Alabama. Caving, also known as spelunking (United States and Canada) and potholing (United Kingdom and Ireland), is the recreational pastime of exploring wild cave systems (as distinguished from show caves).

  7. Smoke Hole Canyon - Wikipedia

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    The spring issues from the base of Cave Mountain and is situated about 1,000 feet directly downhill of Cave Mountain Cave [formerly, "Big Cave"]. Many explorers have tried to find connections between the dry cave — which has had over two miles of passages mapped as of 2001 — and the spring, but so far without success.

  8. List of archaeological sites in Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    Pack Site: 40CH1 Mississippian 1936 Woodard Mound: 40CH3 Woodland 1936 ... Elben Cave Site: 40RE118 1964 Fort Southwest Point: 40RE119 American military 1970s, 1980s

  9. Paisley Caves - Wikipedia

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    The Paisley Caves or the Paisley Five Mile Point Caves complex is a system of eight caves [2] in an arid, desolate region of south-central Oregon, United States north of the present-day city of Paisley, Oregon.