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What is a mammoth caves?
The Mammoth Cave system, located in Kentucky, is the largest cave in the world.
Where is the largest underground cave located?
Mammoth CaveADDED: Depends on how to defines largest; but Mammoth - Flint Ridge Caves system has certainly world's longest knowntotal of surveyed passage length, I believe now >400 miles.
How many caves are in the mammoth flint-ridge cave system?
There are more than 300!
What is Mammoth Cave KY?
mammoth cave KY is a cave in Kentucky that is really, really, really long i mean miles long
How old are the mammoth caves?
a mammoth cave is over 9,000 years old
What is the world's largest cave acreage?
Caves are recorded by passage length totals, not area, except perhaps when analysing their local geographical context. The World's longest is the Mammoth Cave - Flint Ridge Cave system.
Where are the worlds largest series of limestone caves?
Mammoth cave in Kentucky is big in fact the biggest cave in the world! (By total surveyed length.)
What is unique abpout mammoth caves?
Its sheer length - the combined Mammoth Cave / Flint Ridge cave system holds well over 350 miles of surveyed passages; the world's longest known cave. Apart from thatalthough the system is a normal karst cave(in limestone) so holds examples of typical cave passage morphologies, calcite formations etc, it is as individual as any cave - one of the values that make caves so fascinating!
What is the length of the largest cave system?
Taking "largest" to mean longest... Not easy to establish - different sources quote different lengths but the most extensive is the Flint Ridge - Mammoth Cave system, in Kentucky,with over 350 miles of surveyed passages. Caves over 100 miles long are unusual; one of this magnitude rare.This length is notof a single passage but a complex network.
Largest caves in world?
Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.
Are the Mammoth Caves on land?
Yes, they are in Kentucky USA.
Is carlsbad caverns and mammoth caves connected?
No. Mammoth Cave is in Kentucky and Carlsbad Caverns is in New Mexico.
