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Depending on its formation, these systems can exist in one of two primary forms: pools or caves. The primary differentiating characteristics between pools and caves is the availability of light; cave systems are generally aphotic while pools are euphotic. The difference in light availability has a large influence on the biology of a given system.
Straight (2 sizes) and spiral fluting in Cave 26, Ajanta Caves, and fluting in the capitals, 5th century. Sections of column shafts with relatively shallow vertical concave fluting were used in India, especially in early rock-cut architecture, as at the Buddhist Ajanta Caves. They were typically mixed with horizontal bands of more complex ...
The word grotto comes from Italian grotta, Vulgar Latin grupta, and Latin crypta ("a crypt"). [2] It is also related by a historical accident to the word grotesque.In the late 15th century, Romans accidentally unearthed Nero's Domus Aurea on the Palatine Hill, a series of rooms, decorated with designs of garlands, slender architectural framework, foliage, and animals.
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
Black Chasm Cavern is home to amphipods, which live in the lakes of the cave.The amphipods are adapted to life without light, having no pigmentation or eyesight. Also living within the cave, and adapted to total darkness, is the Banksula grubbsi arachnid.
In linguistics, converses or relational antonyms are pairs of words that refer to a relationship from opposite points of view, such as parent/child or borrow/lend. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The relationship between such words is called a converse relation . [ 2 ]
The requirements for the development of lampenflora are sufficient (artificial) light and moisture. An increase in nutrient content (e.g. fertilizer usage on land above the cave) or heat (e.g. incandescent lighting) may lead to an increase in lampenflora. The germs, seeds or spores can get brought into the cave by air, water, animals or people. [7]
A cavern is another name for a cave or a large room within a cave. Cavern or The Cavern may also refer to: The Cavern Club or The Cavern, a rock-and-roll club in Liverpool, England; The Cavern, a 2005 horror film; The Cavern, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer; Caverns, a 1989 novel written collaboratively as an experiment by Ken Kesey