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What is a large hole when ground caves in because of weak or dissolving rocks?
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it is a sinkhole
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What is the difference between a cavern and sinkhole?
A cavern is a large underground cave, and a sinkhole is part of the ground that has collapsed into a hole due to weight on top of it or because of the ground underneath it dissolving. A sinkhole might occur due to land being over a cavern when the cavern roof dissolves too small and the weight on top overcomes the strength of the land.
Why are ice caves so big?
They are not somuch large because they are full of ice, but happen to be large caves thataccumulate a lot ofice; and the size ofany individual cave depends on awhole (hole? -sorry!) range of geological, hydrological and climatic factors specidif to that cave and its location.
Which geological feature is caused primarily by chemical weathering?
large caves in limestone bedrock
What damage can large hailstones do?
Because hailstones can grow quite large before finally falling to the ground, hail can cause tremendous damage to crops, buildings, and vehicles.
What is the force that carves out underground caves from limestone?
Not really a "force", more a process. Chemical weathering primarily. Some mechanical weathering and erosion in active stream passages once these have been enlarged enough to carry large volumes of water. Rainwater acidified by absorbed atmospheric carbon dioxide sinks through the joints and other discontinuities in the limestone upland's mass, dissolving the calcium carbonate that is the rock's main constituent. BTW you don't need the adjective. Caves are always underground!
How large are caves?
Most caves are small but some are very large and complex. There is no standard size and finding an "average" is not very useful.
What environmental process forms the dry caves?
The only caves that can form dry are; Rock-shelters eroded out by wind-blown sand. Talus Caves: voids between landslipped boulders and their parentrock-face. Mass-movement fissures: formed by a type of landslip. Lava Tubes - rather stretching the point because they result from molten lava flowing out from beneath a solidified crust. Caves formed in limestone - as most caves are - arekarst features, i.e. result from dissolution of the rock by weakly-acidic ground-water. Although such caves can subsequently lose their formative streams and so become dry, they were not formed dry and do not develop any further.
What is the difference between a cavern and sinkhole?
A cavern is a large underground cave, and a sinkhole is part of the ground that has collapsed into a hole due to weight on top of it or because of the ground underneath it dissolving. A sinkhole might occur due to land being over a cavern when the cavern roof dissolves too small and the weight on top overcomes the strength of the land.
How is global warming dissolving the ozone layer?
Global warming is dissolving the ozone layer. It causes ozone depletion at large scale.
Why are ice caves so big?
They are not somuch large because they are full of ice, but happen to be large caves thataccumulate a lot ofice; and the size ofany individual cave depends on awhole (hole? -sorry!) range of geological, hydrological and climatic factors specidif to that cave and its location.
What is the process that formed many of your large caves and caverns?
Most caves - of any size - are in limestone, and those are all formed primarily by dissoultion of the rock by weakly acidic ground-water penetrating the joints, bedding-planes, faults and other permeabl discontinuities within the rock mass.
What country in Africa has a large cave?
Nope. No mountains in sight. Not even Kilimanjaro. It's flats grounds all the way... Obviously there is. Kango Caves for one(in the Cape Province (which is in South Africa (which is in Africa (South)))) There are also extensive caves below the Nullarbor Plain in Australia, and that's "flat ground all the way"!
Why the elephant does not sink into the ground?
because the area of their feet, that touches the ground, is large and so the pressure the elephant makes onto the surface of the ground is small. They will sink if the ground is not hard enough, but on average they have no problems with sinking into the ground
In what state are the large underground caves called Carlsbad Caverns?
New Mexico
What is the cro-magnons shelter?
cro magnons shelter is large caves I guess!?
Where does large ground finch live?
on the ground...
Where does a large ground finch live?
the large ground finches live in scalesia zone
