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  • Thumbnail for Honeycomb weathering
    weathering, also known as honeycombs, honeycombed sandstone, is a form of cavernous weathering that consists of regular, tightly adjoining, and commonly patterned...
    6 KB (692 words) - 07:15, 6 April 2024
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    level plains and swamplands in the west to irregular rolling hills, cavernous limestone bluffs, and deep river gorges in the central part of the state, to...
    258 KB (19,441 words) - 03:54, 2 June 2024
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    Karst (redirect from Limestone peak)
    topography formed from the dissolution of soluble carbonate rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum. It is characterized by features like poljes above...
    36 KB (3,852 words) - 07:39, 17 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Al Shouf Cedar Nature Reserve
    are limestone. The whole of the Barouk Mountain is cavernous limestone, with many surface features such as dolines indicating the underlying cavernous forms...
    15 KB (1,959 words) - 15:41, 26 March 2024
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    particularly, limestone is its primary locale of habitation. Euphorbia parvicyathophora grows within the soil pockets of cavernous limestone along the southern...
    2 KB (126 words) - 19:52, 12 January 2024
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    Coppermine Creek. The Cliefden Caves karst system is one of the most cavernous limestone areas in New South Wales and contains over 100 recorded caves. The...
    33 KB (4,379 words) - 18:33, 23 March 2023
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    Mammoth Cave National Park (category Limestone caves)
    in St. Louis. Brown, Richmond F. (Brown 1966). Hydrology of the Cavernous Limestones of the Mammoth Cave Area, Kentucky [Geological Survey Water-Supply...
    68 KB (7,903 words) - 22:37, 2 June 2024
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    belt of Carboniferous Limestone, the 'Great Scar Limestone', some 600 feet (180 m) thick, lies on top of this. Due to the limestone's permeability, all the...
    17 KB (2,059 words) - 07:56, 7 November 2023
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    specific locations. Sinkholes that capture drainage can hold it in large limestone caves. These caves may drain into tributaries of larger rivers. The formation...
    54 KB (5,804 words) - 05:33, 7 June 2024
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    it says that the engineers failed to take account of the cavernous nature of the limestone in the district and when they realized this, the work was...
    7 KB (873 words) - 13:00, 27 May 2024
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    Bell, F.G.; Culshaw, M.G. (2005). Sinkholes and Subsidence. Karst and Cavernous Rocks in Engineering and Const. doi:10.1007/b138363. ISBN 978-3-540-20725-2...
    16 KB (2,132 words) - 08:15, 22 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Al-Qarah Mountain (Saudi Arabia)
    annually. 3- Third type is formed because of earthquake Fissures and it is a cavernous system that takes a regular form of straight fissures, and corridors like...
    11 KB (1,484 words) - 08:24, 19 May 2024
  • hypocaust cav- hollow Latin cavus cave, cavity, excavation, cavern, cavernous, concave ced-, cess- move, yield, go, surrender Latin cedere, cessus accede...
    1 KB (1,495 words) - 06:14, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thermopylae
    reference to the presence of the hot sulphur springs in the area. The cavernous entrance to Hades, the underworld of Greek mythology, was said to be at...
    14 KB (1,622 words) - 20:54, 11 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zuytdorp Cliffs
    the Tamala Limestone along the Zuytdorp Cliffs, the upper eolianite-paleosol units are characterized ... [more]by advanced stages of cavernous weathering...
    4 KB (495 words) - 11:42, 9 September 2021
  • displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback Honeycomb weathering – Form of cavernous weathering and subcategory of tafoni Inselberg – Isolated, steep rock...
    28 KB (8,327 words) - 00:26, 7 May 2024
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    Padirac Cave (category Limestone caves)
    department, Occitanie region, France. The chasm itself is 103 m (338 ft) cavernous, with a diameter of approximately 33 metres (108 ft). Visitors descend...
    3 KB (334 words) - 20:24, 17 May 2024
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    scenic valleys and waterfalls. The central part of the state is marked by cavernous bedrock and irregular rolling hills, and level, fertile plains define...
    253 KB (22,536 words) - 22:10, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
    art between 2002 and 2005, including Serra's The Matter of Time for the cavernous ground-floor gallery. After another audit in 2008 revealed that money...
    29 KB (3,127 words) - 12:37, 3 June 2024
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    anglerfish. In females only, long, sharp fang-like teeth line the jaws of a cavernous maw. An illicium (a modified dorsal spine; the "fishing rod") — and an...
    9 KB (1,003 words) - 07:22, 3 May 2024
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