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All over the place!
** The principle caving areas, from North to South, are:
The NW Pennines (the largest and with the most caves)
Peak District (Derbyshire)
Forest of Dean
South Wales - esp. Mynydd Llangattwg and near Swansea
Mendip
South Devon.
** Then there are various other scattered areas with fewer but still interesting caves. Again, N to S;
Assynt (Scotland)
Isle of Skye and Applecross
Northern Pennines, N.York Moors and various parts of the extensive Permian outcrop and the NE end of the SW-NE coast-coast Jurassic limestone band (Excalibur Pot).
Morecambe Bay / Furness
North Wales
Portland (karst, mass-movement and sea- caves).
** Various isolated caves in minor outcrops of limestone, and surface karst features, including:
Knapps Quarry Cave, all on its own near Combe Martin, N. Devon.
A small phreatic relict nr Bridport, w. Dorset.
Karst features on the Jurassic outcrop including an active swallet in Wiltshire. Surface karst features in Lincolnshire and vague traces on the Cotswolds. The marker stone for the "Source of the Thames" is rather bizarrely next to a shallow doline right up on the Cotswold Hills!
Also a few caves and other karst features in the Chalk: e.g., Beachy Head Cave, and Culpepper's Dish and numerous smaller dolines on the Dorset Heath.
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Are all caves made of limestone?
No, not all caves are made of limestone. Caves can be formed in various types of rocks, including granite, sandstone, and volcanic lava flows. Limestone caves are common because limestone is soluble and can be eroded by water to create cave systems, but caves can also form in other types of rocks through different geological processes.
How and where do you get limestone from?
Limestone Caves e.g The Marble Arch Caves in Northern Ireland(Fermanagh)
How are limestone caves and sea caves alike?
They are both caves
Are limestone in caves?
Other way round! Water and/or air are in caves.:-) Most of the world's caves have formed / are forming in limestone.
What is a structure that goes all the way from the caves ceiling to the floor?
Limestone
How does a acid cave form?
Limestone is the rock that is in Caves. When carbonate acid is reacted to the limestone in the caves, it will corrode forming strange caves landforms.
How is limestone formed in caves?
It isn't! Caves do not form rock at all! Caves in limestoneare formed by the removal by dissolution of the rock by acidic ground-water.
Why are limestone caves so common?
Because limestone uplands with appropriate internal geology and surface drainage in areas of long-term, suitable climatic conditions are so widespread. Not all limestone areas support caves though.
How does limestone caves are formed?
Calcium and carbon form limestone. limestone caves are formed by water and other materials eroding the cliff to form a cave.
Where can limestone caves befound?
generally, in limestone uplands, where the limestone is sufficiently massive to hold caves, and particularly but not exclusively where the local surface drainage can concentrate rainwater into discreet streams than can then form sink caves when they flow onto the limestone.
Why are there so many caves in limestone rock?
Because Limestone rock is a awesome type of rock that creates caves.
Is there limestone in Missouri?
Yes Missouri is famous for its limestone caves.
