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A web-site devoted to the cave's geology(rozylowicz.com) gives passage inception in already-fractured Permian limestone, as 20-30MA, after uplift had advanced sufficiently for karst development to start.
I have also seen elsewhere an age of <4MA, but that was based on analysis of minerals in one area of the system.
I would though treat Rozy Lowicz's work with some caution because it implies the cave's large passages and chambers were formed by collapse, not dissolution. This cannot happen. Collapses fill caves, not form them. For breakdown to occur, there has to be a void for the weakened rock to collapse into; and in the active phase of the passage the stream erodes fallen rock away.
A karst cave passage can only be formed by a stream; but infilled by blockfall as percolation water attacks the rock surrounding the joints in the roof rock.
Far more likely the dry passages in Carlsbad Caverns are like those in any fossil cave (including a far more modest caveI am helping explore): the original streams have changed courses or disappeared altogether; and the dry passages are now decaying.
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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.
Who founded carlsbad caverns?
Nature founded Carlsbad Caverns - they are natural features! They have been known to Man since prehistoric times, when they were used as homes, but the exploitation first for mining guano deposits then of Carlsbad Caverns itself as a show-cave started in the 19C. The designation of the caves and their surrounding land as a National Park, to conserve them for everyone, was carried out in several stages starting in 1923.
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Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland was formed around 700,000 years ago and last erupted in 2010.
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Worldwiode, many tens, perhaps a few hundred, of millions of years - as long as there have been karst uplands. Many that formed in that time no longer exist because the landscapes in which they developed have long been eroded away.
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.
When did carlsbad cavern form?
In 1930, US Congress created Carlsbad Caverns National Park from the same area previously protected as Carlsbad Cave National Monument by President Calvin Coolidge.
How were the Carlsbad Caverns formed?
Carslbad Cavern occurs in limestone that formed from a reef that thrived in a long gone ancient sea. The caves formed when acidic groundwater in cracks in the rock dissolved the surrounding limestone. +++ Another contributor on this site asked the same question and was told it was formed by acid solutions rising from below, like Lechuguilla - technically called a "hypogean" cave. I'd always thought Carslbad Caverns are a "conventional" karst cave, as you describe.
Who founded carlsbad caverns?
Nature founded Carlsbad Caverns - they are natural features! They have been known to Man since prehistoric times, when they were used as homes, but the exploitation first for mining guano deposits then of Carlsbad Caverns itself as a show-cave started in the 19C. The designation of the caves and their surrounding land as a National Park, to conserve them for everyone, was carried out in several stages starting in 1923.
How was Carlsbad Caverns formed?
•They were formed by H2S (hydrogen sulfide) gas rising from below, where reservoirs of oil give off sulfurous fumes. •This gas mixes with ground water and forms H2SO4 (sulfuric acid). The acid then dissolves the limestone from below, rather than from above, by acidic water percolating from the surface. •Formed 100o of years ago.
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When were the carslbad caverns formed?
Sometime within the last 11 million years according to what I could find rapidly on-line from here, in an on-line science magazine-once I'd waded through the exasperating crap Ask throws at you to reach anything useful. That 11Mya (Million years ago) mark is of regional tectonic upliftso is the boundary. The Big Room level of Carlsbad Caverns was dated radio-isotopically to just about 4Mya. If any of Carlsbad still takes a stream then that "active" series will still be developing. Ref: AAAS/Science web-site. What I found was simply an abstract. You'd have to register (subscribe?) to learn more. Or find other publications.
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