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    A solutional cave, solution cave, or karst cave is a cave usually formed in the soluble rock limestone. It is the most frequently occurring type of cave...
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    sinks"), outflow caves ("from which a stream emerges"), and through caves ("traversed by a stream"). Solutional caves or karst caves are the most frequently...
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  • "elephant caves" of Mount Elgon where animals, including elephants, "mine" the rock for its sodium-rich salts. Kitum Cave is a non-solutional cave developed...
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    "cave of mountains behind Đoòng [village]".[disputed – discuss] As a solutional cave, it was formed in soluble limestone and is believed to be between 2...
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    The Bat Cave (Chameri Gufa in Nepali language) is a solutional cave in the Kaski District in Pokhara, Nepal. It is known for a habitat of Horseshoe bats...
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    Dunmore Cave (from Irish Dún Mór 'great fort') is a limestone solutional cave in Ballyfoyle, County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is formed in Lower Carboniferous...
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    The Cave Without a Name is a limestone solutional cave in the Texas Hill Country region of Central Texas. It is a National Natural Landmark. The cave is...
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    Waitomo (redirect from Waitomo Caves)
    King Country region of New Zealand's North Island. There are several solutional cave systems in the area around the village, which are popular tourist attractions...
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    Porth yr Ogof is a solutional cave near the village of Ystradfellte, near the southern boundary of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales. It lies...
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    the cave. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for both biological and geological reasons. Wookey Hole cave is a "solutional cave", one...
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    1881 by local brothers George and William Vanasse. Crystal Cave is a multi-level solutional cave formed in dolomite bedrock in the Prairie du Chien Group...
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    government turned it into a tourist attraction. The cave is a solutional cave. The main entrance of the cave has collapsed leaving only one narrow passage,...
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    Moaning Cavern (category Caves of California)
    0690105°N 120.4660284°W / 38.0690105; -120.4660284 Moaning Caverns is a solutional cave located in the Calaveras County, California, near Vallecito, California...
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    Tory Cave (or Tory's Cave) is a marble solutional cave near New Milford, Connecticut. The big room has enough space for two dozen people. To protect bat...
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    crepuscular cave, bluff shelter, or abri) is a shallow cave-like opening at the base of a bluff or cliff. In contrast to solutional caves (karst), which...
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    Coves dels Hams (category Wikipedia cave articles with unreferenced coordinates)
    dels Hams; "Fishhook Caves") are a solutional cave system on the east coast of the Spanish Balearic Island of Mallorca. The caves are in the municipality...
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  • Heet Cave is a natural cave which is located 30 kilometers southeast of Riyadh city, near Alkharj, Saudi Arabia. Ein Heet is a solutional cave that is...
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    is a solutional cave system on the Dusk Water in North Ayrshire, Scotland, close to the town of Dalry. The Cleeves, or Cleaves Cove (Scots) cave system...
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    solutional cave with fissure passage 2–3 feet wide and tall ceilings. Lechuguilla Cave Back in Tears: The 2019 Expedition to America's Deepest Cave,...
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    inhabitants, she bit off her own tongue and committed suicide. The cave is a solutional cave formed by the gradual erosion of Liuqiu Island's limestone. It...
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    Yordas Cave is a solutional cave in Kingsdale, North Yorkshire, England. It has been renowned since the eighteenth century as a natural curiosity, and...
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    in weakening rock within fissures. As in solutional caves, small speleothems may develop in sea caves. Sea cave chambers sometimes collapse leaving a “littoral...
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  • Kelly's Cave is a limestone solutional cave and National Monument in County Mayo, Ireland. Kelly's Cave lies in woodland 500 m (1,600 ft) northeast of...
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    Cascade Caverns (category Caves of Texas)
    a historically, geologically, and biologically important limestone solutional cave 3 mi (4.8 km) south of Boerne, Texas, United States, on 226 Cascade...
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    The Roodafshan Cave, or Ghar-e Roodafshan, is a solutional cave located in Roodafshan valley, Damavand County, Tehran Province, Iran, in the Alborz mountains...
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    through the cave was renamed for the mythological Styx and added to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Oregon Caves is a solutional cave, with passages...
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  • Anatakitaki Cave, or the Cave of the Kopekas, is a karst cave located in the northeast of Atiu, Cook Islands. The cave is a large solutional cave, with many...
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  • hollowed out by chemical processes—these caves are known as solutional caves. Non-solutional caves are carved out by weathering and are typically of smaller...
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    outcrop, the cave is situated about 100 metres north of the Neolithic dolmen known as the Anta do Alto da Toupeira. It is a solutional cave and consists...
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  • Onyx Cave is a solutional cave system with about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) of passages formed in Permian limestone in the Santa Rita Mountains of Arizona. It...
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