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The Mystery Flesh Pit National Park is an ongoing science fiction/horror project by artist Trevor Roberts that blends multimedia illustrations, writings and immersive world building. The story revolves around the fictional Mystery Flesh Pit, a colossal, ancient superorganism discovered beneath the town of Gumption, Texas, during an oil ...
Inner Space Cavern (Also known as Laubach Cave) is a karst cave located in Georgetown, Texas. The cavern was formed by water passing through Edwards limestone . The cavern is estimated to be around 20–25 million years old but were only open to the surface since the late Pleistocene period 14,000–45,000 years ago.
The cave is one of an estimated 3,000 under the extensive karst landscape of the Edwards Plateau, formed by the dissolution of Edwards Group limestone by rainwater. [4] The cave, which is an estimated 40 million years old, was the second discovered in the immediate residential area: during construction of the area in 1986, a separate cave was found and dynamited by housing developers.
The system has been explored and mapped by cave divers of the Jacob's Well Exploration Project and has been shown to consist of two principal conduits. One passageway measures approximately 4,500 feet (1,400 m) from the surface with a maximum depth of 137 feet (42 m), and a secondary one extends approximately 1,000 feet (300 m) in length from the point where it diverges from the main conduit.
Wonder Cave (San Marcos, Texas) This page was last edited on 17 December 2016, at 07:09 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
H. S. Barber carved his name inside the cave in 1889. [6] In 1968, the Devil's Sinkhole was designated as a National Natural Landmark by the National Park Service. [7] The area was transferred to the state of Texas in 1985, and opened to the public in 1992. [8]
The 100-foot (30 m)-wide crescent shaped opening to the cave lies at the bottom of a sinkhole, formed when the roof of the cave collapsed. It is the summer home to the largest colony of bats in the world. An estimated 20 million Mexican free-tailed bats roost in the cave from March to October making it the largest known concentration of mammals ...
Bracken Cave, near the Natural Bridge Caverns, is home to one of two large bat colonies in Texas. The bats that inhabit Bracken Cave are a small species called Mexican free-tailed bats. Bats control the insect population, help to pollinate plants, and are a food source for other animals, making them a valuable part of the ecosystem.