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The vast majority of the world's caves are in limestone, due to that rock's solubility in weakly-acid water, so lie within limestone uplands offering suitable combinations of structural, hydrological and long-term climate controls favourable to cave and other karst feature development.
Lava Tubes are found in some basalt lava flows - e.g. on Iceland & the Canary Islands.
Mass-movement caves occur behind cliff-faces and valley walls under certain conditions - they are landslip features.
There are few other type of minor caves dotted around in various other rocks, too.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 11y agolimestone caves can be found in Kansas City, MO. they are used as offices as well as my favorite, jagers paintball. ++++ Business premises and Paint-balling are no way to treat a natural cave! To answer properly; karst (or solution) caves are found in most limestone upland areas of the world. There are many on the two American continents; in Britain and Europe, the Middle East, parts of what is loosely called "Russia", South Africa, huge areas of Asia, in Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania.... There's an old saying often attributed to an English caver called Fred Davies (though he may have found it elsewhere) that "caves be where you find 'em!". Though there are natural limits on where to find them, there are plenty to find - not just in Kansas!
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∙ 11y agoIn the ground
Indded! And in limestone, for the vast majority of them, although you can also find lava tubes in Iceland, Hawaii and The Canary Islands, and various minor caves of other types elsewhere.
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∙ 12y agoCaves are located all over the world. Water, volcanic activity, and other geologic events form caves. The national speleological society is another great resource.
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∙ 10y agoIn limestone uplands in appropriate combinations of geological, hydrological and lont-term climate conditions.
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∙ 13y agoIn areas with karst topography. Carbonate bedrock.
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∙ 12y agocaves are found near water
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Two most common types of rock in which sea caves form?
Ocean caves are formed from most commonly formed by calcium and magnesium, usually sedimentary rocks. They can also be made of granite.
How was maquoketa caves formed?
The Maquoketa caves in Iowa were formed through years of natural non-glacial erosion.
Why do caves only form a certain type of rock?
Caves are formed by rainwater dissolving away limestone or sandstone.
Do tectonic plates make caves?
Caves are formed in many ways but mostly by chemical weathering of the surface rock. Tectonic plates on the other hand are huge slabs of rock that form the Earth's crust. Caves are not formed by tectonic plates, think of caves as tiny boreholes in the very surface of a tectonic plate. I agree
What are underwater caves?
Yes. Underwater caves do exist. Many formed when sea levels were lower than they are now and were flooded when sea levels rose.
Can caves be formed in areas of slate?
No. Most caves are formed out of limestone making that false.
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.
Two most common types of rock in which sea caves form?
Ocean caves are formed from most commonly formed by calcium and magnesium, usually sedimentary rocks. They can also be made of granite.
How bacteria formed caves?
They didn't. Most caves are formed in limestone, by rain-water slightly acidified by abosrbing atmospheric carbon-dioxide slowly dissolving the rock.
How are Erosional caves formed?
Erosional caves are formed by the action of water or wind.
How lime- stones caves formed?
they are formed when animals in the caves are trying to get to shelter and the limestone in the caves melt and eventually form lime-stones caves
How were the wooky caves formed?
Wookies live in trees, not caves.
How was caves formed?
The Maquoketa caves in Iowa were formed through years of natural non-glacial erosion.
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.
How was maquoketa caves formed?
The Maquoketa caves in Iowa were formed through years of natural non-glacial erosion.
Caves are formed by erosion from?
Most caves are in limestone, and formed by carbonic acid - rain-water acidified by dissolved carbon-dioxide from the atmosphere - dissolving the rock as it sinks through the joints and other fractures in the rock mass.
How are primary caves formed?
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