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Cave Exploring
A recreational activity where people enter caves for the enjoyment of being underground. This also includes cave-diving, cavern-diving and exploring surface pits. Topics include exploring equipment, methods for safely entering caves, and rope techniques. Caving is an organized activity where safety is a primary concern. Cave explorers often assist Speleologist with collecting data for research projects. Caving does not include paying to enter a cave that has paved sidewalks and fixed lighting. Entering a cave without proper training and equipment is not caving. Cave Exploring is a physical activity that often involves hiking and camping in remote areas. Caver explorers often publish stories about their experiences underground, including pictures they took in the cave.
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What problems did the climbers face as they sat stranded in their snow cave?
The climbers faced extreme cold temperatures, limited food and water supplies, and the risk of hypothermia and frostbite as they sat stranded in their snow cave. Additionally, they were at risk of dehydration and snow blindness while awaiting rescue.
What is the name for a depression in a cave holding water?
There isn't a specific term for such a thing, beyond "pool"!
What kind of rocks are in underwater caves Metamorphic Igneous or Sedimentary?
Not sure quite what you are asking about, but anyway it is more accurate to ask what kinds of rock hold the caves, not what rocks are in the caves.
Most caves are in limestone, a sedimentary rock, irrespective of water-level. There are a few caves in igneous rock: lava-tubes in basalt-flows, but on land, not underwater. There are also a good many caves in marble, the metamorphic but still-soluble form of limestone; and again the water-level is secondary to the cave itself. A few caves exist in rock-salt, an evaporite.
What is the nearest cave to Buckingham?
The nearest cave to Buckingham is likely the Caves of Cheddar Gorge, located in Somerset, approximately 90 miles away. Cheddar Gorge features a series of limestone caves, known for their stunning formations and rich history. While not immediately adjacent to Buckingham, it is one of the more notable cave systems in the region. For smaller caves, you might also consider the nearby limestone areas around the Chiltern Hills.
Caves are cold because of the cold water inside the cave that runs through most.
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That's true to a point but caves can be cold with no running water in them - and there are very many cases that are dry. (They have lost their formative streams.) There is a rule of thumb that says a cave's air temperature is about that of the mean annual air temperature for the area in which it lies, but this is not so for all caves.
What did they use to draw on the cave walls to get cave art?
They ground up pigments from red and yellow earths also black charcoal and white chalk, mixed them with animal fats and applied them to the walls of the cave. They are amazingly durable since we can still see them today.
What kind of place could you find caves?
[Please see my reply below this original.] Caves are very rare formation usually found in mountains. They are vary rare as they are formed exclusively from a very unique creature that was found on earth in the jerassic period. The creature is called the secallius lumosur. This translate to giant worm. It lived most of its life underground, only coming into the outside world to mate. Caves can be found in very few places these days due to collapses and the extinction of the giant worm. They can be found in Germany and Russia.
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Caves are very common formations.
Yes they are found in mountainous areas but not exclusively so: they need limestone uplands but the relief need not be ever so high.
They do not have biological origins although their host lilestone may be highly fossiliferous.
That limestone may well be Jurassic (not "Jerassic") but could also be Carboniferous or Cretaceous: most of the UK' caves are in CarboniferousLimestone though some are in late Jurassic rock. Most French caves are in Jurassic and Cretaceous Limestones.
I've no idea where you found yourSecallius Lumosurbut it looks made-up.
What can be found in Germany and Russia?The worm or the cave?Both countries have caves - so does the UK, USA, China, Iran and many other countries.
Right - the serious answer to the question itself, as I assume the questioner wanted;
Most caves are in limestone uplands offeringsuitable geological, hydrological and long-term climatic conditions to encourage cave development,which proceeds by rain-water sinking into the rock's joints and other fractures and slowly dissolving it.
it is a person who explores caves.
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Not according to most such people.
I've no idea where the word originated [but now see below] - USA slang yes, but how, when & why I do not know. No American caving literature I've ever read, uses the word. The proper, international, term in the English language is "caver". Simple as that.
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Since writing that below my '+++' answer-partition I learnt that "spelunker" was a rather pretentious but harmless invention by two American cavers in the 1930s. It was used for a while quite innocently and picked up the Press and non-caving public. Eventually the word became one of derision among cavers themselves for novices and dilettantes, and so faded away from caving publications; but this development was not realised by non-cavers.
There is a fancy word, Speleologist - this describes a caver who studies scientifically the caves themselves (geology etc) and their contents (wildlife etc.). The first e should really be the ae dipthong character, but it is usually now emasculated to just e. Notably perhaps, one of the world's leading speleology learned-journals is called simply Cave and Karst Science.
Where is the largest underground cave located?
Mammoth Cave
ADDED: 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.
What type of plants live in a cave?
There are no plants in caves,except for the grasses and such at the mouth of a cave, as there is no sunlight.
They are not usually used by Man except recreationally. Naturally, sea caves become be refuges for various invertebrates that feed on the dead seaweed that accumulates in them.
In some places sea-caves became popularly associated with 18-19C smugglers using them as hiding-places for their booty, but there is little real evidence for this. If the smugglers knew about a cave, so would the local "Preventy Men" (Customs) & any informants!
What is the purpose of cave art?
Cave paintings are paintings on cave walls and ceilings, and the term is used especially for those dating to prehistoric times.
Cave arts are paintings found on ceilings and cave walls , and often refer to paintings of prehistoric origin.Where is the imbakan and tanggapan and ospital and tambangan cave located in bulacan?
San Miguel, Bulacan
*correction it should be " Imbakan, Tanggapan,Ospital and Tambakan"
Does the Eisriesenwelt Cave have any plants or animals?
It may have but I would think it would be a very limited ecosystem as the cave is noted for being very cold, with thick ice deposits.
Caves are made by water and wind carving into the Earth's crust.
What colors are used in cave art?
Cave men and other prehistoric humans like Neanderthals would have used the colours: red and black.
Red was used because it was easily gathered from blood. It was also a strong colour, so it did not wash away very easily. Blood stains very well, so it would have been good for the stone wall of a cave.
Black was a colour easily collected from rocks. Cave men would have used black also because the colour is strong and easily assessable.
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Red: Blood - wrong. Blood turns brown and degrades very quickly. The red - and yellow - pigments are ochre (clay-like iron compounds). Black: charcoal, though I dare say some caves may have yielded manganese "wad", which is a black, silt-like deposit. The artists also chose cave walls that stayed dry!
Is it possible to have ponds in a cave?
Sure. There are natural pools and streams created by the water that made the cave in the first place.
