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Not a pattern in a mathematical sense, no, but the vast majority of the world's caves are in limestone uplands of appropriate structural and hydrological characteristics for cave development. They are very rare in Chalk, for instance, even though Chalk is a type of Limestone.

 

Limestone is a very common and widespread range of sedimentary calcium-carbonate rocks, so caves are found in very many countries. 

 

Another important but  much rarer type of cave is the Lava Tube, but this can only form in flows of low-viscosity lava, retricting them to a few locations.

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