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Caves form because ground water is slightly acidic and in flowing through joints, bedding-planes and faults within limestone or gypsum, dissolves the rock away. The only other rocks soluble in water are Chalk, Dolomite and Salt, but their formations do not normally support cave development - though there are a few caves known in chalk.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 11y agoOver tens or hundreds of thousands of years, areas with limestone rocks can develop caves.
Caves are formed when carbonic acid in ground water dissolves limestone.
If the water level is lowered, then limestone dissolved from rocks above
the cave is deposited as stalactites and stalagmites.
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∙ 15y agowhat happened was:
1. the sea water around the poles used to be heated by the sun but the pole ice never melted.
2. This changed and instead the ice was being heated but the sea water was freezing up.
3. The whole Earth was covered in thick sheets of ice.
4. The ice melted and formed glaciers.
i watched it on a documentry. One comes on every week about the Earth.
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∙ 15y agoThe large, pointed objects inside of caves are not icicles. Instead, they are calcium carbonate deposits that have formed from dripping mineralized water. These deposits are called "stalagmites" and "stalactites". Did you know that stalacmites and stalactites sometimes bond together to form a single column? ~Apple Juice
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∙ 12y agoice caves form when the inside of a glacier melts and the whole gets bigger and bigger
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Is a cave a primary land form of a secondary land form?
primary
Groundwater continues to affect the ... rock that form a cave.?
Limestone
When the rock above a cave collapses what does it form?
It is called weathering.
When a rock above a cave collapses what does it form?
It is called weathering.
A limestone deposit rising from the floor in a cave?
Mineral deposits which develop upwards from a cave floor are known as stagmites. Deposits which form from the ceiling are stalactites.
What is the plural form of cave?
caves
Is a cave a primary land form of a secondary land form?
primary
What is the plurals of cave?
The plural form is CAVES.
What part of speech is the word cave?
The word cave can be a noun and a verb. The noun form is a large cavity formed underground. The verb form means to surrender.
Is the formation of stalagmites in a cave a physical change?
it probably going to be a physical change because when the stalagmites form in the cave its still going to be a cave and nothing really is going to change the cave.
How did Ellison Cave form?
Ellison's Cave is a cave located in Appalachian Plateaus of Northwest Georgia. A cave is formed when limestone is dissolved.
The major art form of cromagnons was?
Cave painting
What is the earliest Australian art form?
Cave drawings.
What does a collasped cave form?
A shake-hole, sink-hole or doline. The collapse may also form an entrance to the cave below, if the slumped material has not filled the passage.
What forms a seaside cave?
The sea attacks cracks in the cliff at an headland. The cracks grow larger and form a cave.
What is the name of the sharp icicle-shaped features that form on cave ceilings?
Hanging down from the cave roof are stalactites.
How long does a cave to form?
That's extremely variable and specific to each cave, but you have to think in tens or hundreds of thousands of years.
