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The practice of enlarging undiscovered cave openings to allow entry. Caver Someone who explores caves for recreation, a synonym for spelunker [3] Caving The sport of exploring caves, a synonym for spelunking [4] Cupola. Main article: Cupola (cave formation) Recess, indentation, or cavity in the ceiling of a lava tube, a kind of cave formation.
A cave or cavern is a natural void under the Earth's surface. [1] Caves often form by the weathering of rock and often extend deep underground. Exogene caves are smaller openings that extend a relatively short distance underground (such as rock shelters). Caves which extend further underground than the opening is wide are called endogene caves ...
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).
A vertical or inclined shaft connecting a cave passage to the surface. [4] avulsion 1. The sudden loss of land by the action of water. 2. The rapid abandonment by a river or stream of an existing channel in favor of the formation of a new channel, typically because the new channel follows a steeper or less obstructed course. awareness space
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.
Bat Cave; Carter Caves State Park; Cascade Caverns; Colossal Cavern; Diamond Caverns; Eleven Jones Cave; Fisher Ridge Cave System; Glover's Cave; Goochland Cave; Great Onyx Cave; Great Saltpetre Cave; Horse Cave also known as "Hidden River Cave" Lost River Cave; Mammoth Cave; Martin Ridge Cave System; Oligo-Nunk Cave System
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
A cave dweller, or troglodyte, is a human who inhabits a cave or the area beneath the overhanging rocks of a cliff. Prehistory