speleothems

speleothems
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  • Speleothem — Image showing the six most common speleothems with labels. Enlarge to view labels. A speleothem (  / …   Wikipedia

  • cave — cavelike, adj. /kayv/, n., v., caved, caving. n. 1. a hollow in the earth, esp. one opening more or less horizontally into a hill, mountain, etc. 2. a storage cellar, esp. for wine. 3. Eng. Hist. a secession, or a group of seceders, from a… …   Universalium

  • Radiocarbon dating — (sometimes simply known as carbon dating) is a radiometric dating method that uses the naturally occurring radioisotope carbon 14 (14C) to estimate the age of carbon bearing materials up to about 58,000 to 62,000 years.[1] Raw, i.e. uncalibrated …   Wikipedia

  • Cave of the Mounds — The Cave of the Mounds is a natural limestone cave located in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, USA, and is named for two nearby hills called the Blue Mounds. More specifically, it is located in the southern slope of the east hill. The cave s beauty comes… …   Wikipedia

  • Tufa — Not to be confused with tuff, a porous volcanic rock. This article is about the geological formation. For the historic Chinese name, see Southern Liang. Tufa columns at Mono Lake, California Tufa is a variety of limestone, formed by the… …   Wikipedia

  • Selenite — This article is about the mineral: for other meanings, see Selenite (disambiguation). Selenite, satin spar, desert rose, and gypsum flower are four varieties of gypsum; all four varieties show obvious crystalline structure. The four crystalline… …   Wikipedia

  • Lechuguilla Cave — The Chandelier Ballroom in Lechuguilla Cave Lechuguilla Cave is, as of June 2011, the sixth longest cave (130.24 miles (210 km)) known to exist in the world, and the deepest in the continental United States (1,604 feet (489 m)), but it… …   Wikipedia

  • Delaware Basin — Exposed and buried parts of Capitan Reef. Blue area shows area once flooded by the Delaware Sea. The Delaware Basin in West Texas and southern New Mexico is famous for holding large oil fields and for exposing a fossilized reef. Guadalupe… …   Wikipedia

  • Maya cave sites — are caves used by and associated with the Maya civilization of pre Columbian Mesoamerica. Certain beliefs and observances connected with cave sites are also maintained among some contemporary Maya communities. These cave sites are understood to… …   Wikipedia

  • calcite — calcitic /kal sit ik/, adj. /kal suyt/, n. one of the commonest minerals, calcium carbonate, CaCO3, found in a great variety of crystalline forms: a major constituent of limestone, marble, and chalk; calc spar. [1840 50; CALC + ITE1] * * * Most… …   Universalium

  • Muchimuk-Höhlensystem — Das Muchimuk Höhlensystem ist ein mehr als 20 km langes System von Höhlen im Churì Tepui im Südosten von Venezuela. Der erste Zugang wurde 2002 bei einer Befliegung des Aprada Tepuis von Charles Brewer Carías in der Bergregion Chimantá… …   Deutsch Wikipedia


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