Monday, November 3, 2008

Caves: The World Beneath the World

Back to the Cave!
If you are stretched and squeezed by everyday life, then you might be in perfect
shape to explore caves.

Enter a narrow natural passageway that may lead
to simply mind-boggling underground world - to get away from the depressing
sights like href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Markham-suburbs.id.jpg.jpg">these...
Caves may lurk right under your feet: a fascinating and unexpected environment,
which is often known only to spelunkers and dedicated Gollum-seekers.
"Symphony of Stones" (how aptly named) -
Fairyland Cave Formations
Caves are a fairyland of delight, from the burning hot enclaves to the glacial
ice mazes. Thousands of years of dripping water, eroding stone and budding
minerals create a silent world of mystery and beauty... Graceful arches, giant
crystals... silent but for the sound of water dripping and bubbling through.

The most common type of caves form when slightly acidic rainwater trickles into
the crevices of limestone and gradually widens the cracks as it dissolves the
stone. Centuries of water, supersaturated with
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