A pit cave, shaft cave or vertical cave—or often simply called a pit (in the US) and pothole or pot (in the UK); jama in Slavic languages scientific and...

Ellison's Cave is a pit cave located in Walker County, on Pigeon Mountain in the Appalachian Plateaus of Northwest Georgia. It is the 12th deepest cave in the...

Hellhole is a large and deep pit cave in Germany Valley of eastern West Virginia. It is the seventh longest cave in the United States and is home to almost...

The Cave of Swallows, also called the Cave of the Swallows (Spanish: Sótano de las Golondrinas), is an open-air pit cave in the municipality of Aquismón...

exploring cave systems Caving organizations Cenote – Natural pit or sinkhole that exposes groundwater underneath List of caves Pit cave – Cave with significant...

Chasm (Alberta, Canada) Bortig Pit Cave (Apuseni Mountains, Romania) Canyon Creek Ice Cave (Alberta, Canada) Castleguard Cave (Alberta, Canada) Coudersport...

Natural Trap Cave is a pit cave in the Bighorn Mountains, in northern Wyoming, United States. Excavations in the cave are an important source of paleontological...

place Pit cave, a natural cave containing a vertical shaft Mine (mining) Open-pit mine, surface extraction of rock or minerals Coal mine or pit Pit, an...

is termed "barrow pit" in the western United States (especially the Rocky Mountains). The localism—sometimes pronounced "borrer pit"—describes the ditch...

Keva's pit cave (Croatian: Kevina jama) is a pit cave located in the village of Radošić in the municipality of Lećevica, part of Split-Dalmatia County...

of the cavern lies above it. Abîme are also known as pit caves in the United States and pot caves in England. They can also be called domepits, due to...

is a list of sinkholes, blue holes, dolines, crown holes, cenotes, and pit caves. A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form...

Veryovkina Cave (also spelled Verëvkina Cave, Georgian: ვერიოვკინის მღვიმე, romanized: veriovk'inis mghvime, Abkhaz: Вериовкин иҳаԥы) is a cave in Abkhazia...

names are listed below. Aven – In the south of France (this name means pit cave in the Occitan language). Black holes (not to be confused with cosmic black...

T. rex being lowered into a sarlacc pit. Speculative fiction portal Film portal Sarlacc's Pit cave – a karst cave entrance in British Columbia, Canada...

caves: caves are rare across most of the world; most caves are dark, cold, and damp; and other cave inhabitants, such as bears and cave bears, cave lions...

easily. The entrance is like that of a Pit Cave. From the ground you can only see two pits side by side and a third pit a little further away. After descending...

Lancour, spotted a deep, snow-filled depression at the cave entrance. The team named the cave Sarlacc's Pit, in reference to the Sarlacc creature from the film...

archaeology, cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The...

The Riesending cave (German: Riesending-Schachthöhle) is a pit cave in the Untersberg near Berchtesgaden, Germany and Salzburg, Austria. At 1,148 m it...

exploring wild cave systems (as distinguished from show caves). In contrast, speleology is the scientific study of caves and the cave environment. The...

skillfully use loess's features (wall stability) to dig a square pit on the spot, and then dig the cave horizontally on the four walls to form the underground courtyard...

(spḗlaion) 'cave', and θέμα (théma) 'deposit') is a geological formation by mineral deposits that accumulate over time in natural caves. Speleothems...

similar to estavelles. Morphologically, ponors come in forms of large pits and caves, large fissures and caverns, networks of smaller cracks, and sedimentary...

44.8580500; 1.7501389 The Padirac Chasm (French: Gouffre de Padirac) is a cave located near Gramat, in the Lot department, Occitanie region, France. The...

(from Ancient Greek σπήλαιον (spḗlaion) 'cave', and -λογία (-logía) 'study of') is the scientific study of caves and other karst features, as well as their...

to Wikipedia articles on sinkholes, blue holes, dolines, cenotes, and pit caves Cenote Hubiku – Temozón, Mexico | Atlas Obscura or tz'onot in some secondary...

cave is any cave formed in volcanic rock, though it typically means caves formed by volcanic processes, which are more properly termed volcanic caves...

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A sea cave, also known as a littoral cave, is a type of cave formed primarily by the wave action of the sea. The primary process involved is erosion. Sea...