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    A pit cave, shaft cave or vertical cave—or often simply called a pit (in the US) and pothole or pot (in the UK); jama in Slavic languages scientific and...
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    Ellison's Cave is a pit cave located in Walker County, on Pigeon Mountain in the Appalachian Plateaus of Northwest Georgia. It is the 12th deepest cave in the...
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    Hellhole is a large and deep pit cave in Germany Valley of eastern West Virginia. It is the seventh longest cave in the United States and is home to almost...
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    The Cave of Swallows, also called the Cave of the Swallows (Spanish: Sótano de las Golondrinas), is an open-air pit cave in the municipality of Aquismón...
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    exploring cave systems Caving organizations Cenote – Natural pit or sinkhole that exposes groundwater underneath List of caves Pit cave – Cave with significant...
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  • place Pit cave, a natural cave containing a vertical shaft Mine (mining) Open-pit mine, surface extraction of rock or minerals Coal mine or pit Pit, an...
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    Chasm (Alberta, Canada) Bortig Pit Cave (Apuseni Mountains, Romania) Canyon Creek Ice Cave (Alberta, Canada) Castleguard Cave (Alberta, Canada) Coudersport...
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    Digging (redirect from Borrow pit)
    is termed "barrow pit" in the western United States (especially the Rocky Mountains). The localism—sometimes pronounced "borrer pit"—describes the ditch...
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    Natural Trap Cave is a pit cave in the Bighorn Mountains, in northern Wyoming, United States. Excavations in the cave are an important source of paleontological...
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  • Sarlacc (redirect from Great Pit of Carkoon)
    and Boba Fett. Speculative fiction portal Film portal Sarlacc's Pit cave – a karst cave entrance in British Columbia, Canada "Sarlacc". StarWars.com. Retrieved...
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    easily. The entrance is like that of a Pit Cave. From the ground you can only see two pits side by side and a third pit a little further away. After descending...
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    caves: caves are rare across most of the world; most caves are dark, cold, and damp; and other cave inhabitants, such as bears and cave bears, cave lions...
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    is a list of sinkholes, blue holes, dolines, crown holes, cenotes, and pit caves. A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form...
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  • Keva's pit cave (Croatian: Kevina jama) is a pit cave located in the village of Radošić in the municipality of Lećevica, part of Split-Dalmatia County...
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    Veryovkina Cave (also spelled Verëvkina Cave, Georgian: ვერიოვკინის მღვიმე, romanized: veriovk'inis mghvime, Abkhaz: Вериовкин иҳаԥы) is a cave in Abkhazia...
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    names are listed below. Aven – In the south of France (this name means pit cave in the Occitan language). Black holes (not to be confused with cosmic black...
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  • Bungonia Caves Careys Cave Church Creek Caves Colong Caves Finchs Caves Jenolan Caves (List of caves within the Jenolan Caves karst) St Michaels Cave (Avalon...
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    Lancour, spotted a deep, snow-filled depression at the cave entrance. The team named the cave Sarlacc's Pit, in reference to the Sarlacc creature from the film...
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    Speleology (redirect from Cave science)
    (from Ancient Greek σπήλαιον (spḗlaion) 'cave' and -λογία (-logía) 'study of') is the scientific study of caves and other karst features, as well as their...
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    cave is any cave formed in volcanic rock, though it typically means caves formed by volcanic processes, which are more properly termed volcanic caves...
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    Ponor (redirect from Ponor cave)
    similar to estavelles. Morphologically, ponors come in forms of large pits and caves, large fissures and caverns, networks of smaller cracks, and sedimentary...
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    archaeology, cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The...
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    A solutional cave, solution cave, or karst cave is a cave usually formed in a soluble rock like limestone (Calcium carbonate CaCO3). It is the most frequently...
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  • of the cavern lies above it. Abîme are also known as pit caves in the United States and pot caves in England. They can also be called domepits, due to...
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    list of caves in Australia. Abercrombie Caves Ashford Caves Bendethera Caves Borenore Caves Bungonia Caves Careys Caves Cliefden Caves Jenolan Caves (List...
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    Speleothem (redirect from Cave formations)
    (spḗlaion) 'cave' and θέμα (théma) 'deposit') is a geological formation made by mineral deposits that accumulate over time in natural caves. Speleothems...
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    Yaodong (redirect from Chinese cave house)
    skillfully use loess's features (wall stability) to dig a square pit on the spot, and then dig the cave horizontally on the four walls to form the underground courtyard...
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    exploring wild cave systems (as distinguished from show caves). In contrast, speleology is the scientific study of caves and the cave environment. The...
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    historic cave contained a 90-foot (27 m) entrance pit known as Misery Hole, which led to 400 feet (122 m) of dry, dead-end passages. The cave was visited...
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    Cenote (category Cave geology)
    to Wikipedia articles on sinkholes, blue holes, dolines, cenotes, and pit caves Cenote Hubiku – Temozón, Mexico | Atlas Obscura or tz'onot in some secondary...
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