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What dissolves limestone and forms caves or caverns?
Carbonic Acid .
Large amounts of carbonic acid are found in what?
Limestone and places like limestone caverns.
What does groundwater naturally contain that allows it to dissolve limestone and caverns?
Carbonic Acid
Which activity demonstrate chemical weathering?
dissolving of limestone by acid rain
What does groundwater naturally contain that allows it to dissolve limestone and form caverns?
Carbonic Acid
Why is chemical weathering common in places where there are large amounts of limestone and water?
Rainwater is naturally slightly acidic. The acid in rainwater reacts chemically with the calcium carbonate of limestone, dissolving it. The result is chemically weathered limestone, karst terrains, and cave structures.
How are caverns formed?
Caverns are formed when rain, run-off, or surface water mixes with the topsoil, then Carbon acid and Carbon Dioxide mix with the soil where plants grow, making an acid so powerful that it eats away at the limestone that is underground; making cracks. Over millions of years, this process makes caves, which also concludes that caves are made up of lots of other caves.
Carbonic acid forms when carbon dioxide is absorbed into water The action of carbonic acid on may produce sinkholes caverns and formations like stalagmites?
Limestone
If a limestone piece is dipped in water a bubble evolves Why?
Weak acid reacts with the limestone (calcium carbonate (CaCO3), to form hydrogen carbonate HCO3- ions (which is soluble in water). Therefore, acid rain has the same effect, and is the cause of pot holes and caverns in limestone areas.
How do most caverns form?
They are in limestone. Acidic ground water (rain-water that has absorbed atmospheric carbon dioxide to form carbonic acid) dissolving the limestone as it flows through the joints & other discontinuities in the rock mass. Gypsum is similarly soluble and can form caves in the right circumstances. So is dolomite but the structural nature of dolomite deposits prevents cavern development.
When did Carlsbad Caverns start forming?
Carlsbad Caverns began forming approximately 250 million years ago, with the majority of the cave's development occurring during the last 5-10 million years. The caves were formed by sulfuric acid dissolving the surrounding limestone bedrock to create the magnificent caverns we see today.
A depression in the ground due to cave collapse or acidic water dissolution of limestone is called a?
A sinkhole is the term used to describe a depression in the ground caused by a cave collapse. It can also be the result of acidic water dissolving limestone.
