They are not usually used by Man except recreationally. Naturally, sea caves become be refuges for various invertebrates that feed on the dead seaweed that accumulates in them.
In some places sea-caves became popularly associated with 18-19C smugglers using them as hiding-places for their booty, but there is little real evidence for this. If the smugglers knew about a cave, so would the local "Preventy Men" (Customs) & any informants!
the real process contains more details but this is just a main idea
when fish and shellfish die, their bones and shells are compacted and made into limestone (which is also found in toothpaste), due to plate tectonics, the ground rises up and pushes the limestone out of the water. Soil is put over it so animals can live there, then when it rains, the water goes through the soil, and the cracks in the limestone ,picking up carbon dioxide, making it a very mild acid.
The acid (over centuries) eats away the limestone making holes underground.
Not sure what you are asking, but caves are formed by microbes...
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Sorry but that's incorrect. Although microbial action may affect a few caves in a very limted way, most caves by far are in limestone, and form by acidic ground-water dissolving the rock. The water is rain-water that has absorbed atmospheric carbon dioxide to form the weak carbonic acid.
Obviously the water has to go somewhere: it escapes eventually through the cave's "rising" or "resurgence" (spring). So caves "work" by carrying rain-water from the hills to springs below.
limestone mostly
They are both caves
why are caves so dry and dusty
The caves of Ajanta are located in India in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra. The caves have monuments of Buddha which were carved beginning in the 2nd century BCE.
The branch of science that involves the study of caves is speleology.
Yes. Underwater caves do exist. Many formed when sea levels were lower than they are now and were flooded when sea levels rose.
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The Ajanta Caves contain 29 caves in total.
There are 12 Buddhist (caves 1-12), 17 Hindu (caves 13-29) and 5 Jain (caves 30-34) caves. Total 34 caves.
caves caves caves caves why do u want to know?
granite caves sea caves sandstone caves . stay in school
granite caves sea caves sandstone caves . stay in school
The most common types of cave are limestone caves.
They are both caves
Because they lived in them.
That we do not know but we can see the work of our ancient ancestors adorning the walls of prehistoric caves.
No, of course not. They work in coal mines. Caves don't develop in the Coal Measures. Some 18-19C lead-miners in places like the Peak District (English Midlands) broke into or mined from natural caves in the area's Carboniferous Limestone. They were exploiting ore-bodies that had been intercepted by later cave development. The iron-ore deposits in the Forest of Dean (England) did form within caves, but as a general rule caves and economic metallic ores do not otherwise co-exist. Oh, and the adjective "underground" is tautologous!
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