Caves

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Caves Of Austria - Caves
... The caves are listed by alphabetical order and there are shown the main touristic caves and other notable (ex ... section is shown, between parenthesis, the cave's trail as show cave (SC) ...
Chinhoyi - Overview
... (0.62 mi), northwest of town on the road to Karoi and the Caves Motel, located about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) northwest of town, next to the Chinhoyi Caves ... Tourist attractions in Chinhoyi include the Chinhoyi Caves in Chinhoyi Caves National Park ... The limestone caves were first described by Frederick Courtney Selous in 1888 ...
Madre De Dios Island
... Madre de Dios Island is composed partly by limestone and has several natural caves discovered by cavers and scientists of "Terre" team ... In one of those caves called the "Cave of the whales" skelletons of ancient whales (2600 to 3500 BP) were discovered 10 to 30 meters above the sea level ... In another cave, named Cueva del Pacifico, unknown rock art was discovered in 2006 ...
St. Dunstan's Well Catchment - Geological
... St Dunstan's Well Catchment is an important and well-known cave system which includes a series of spectacularly-decorated caves which in total ... The caves at Fairy Cave Quarry were formed mainly by the erosive action of water flowing beneath the water-table at considerable pressure (so called 'phreatic' development), but as the water table has fallen ... Shatter Cave and Withyhill Cave are generally considered to be amongst the finest decorated caves in Britain in terms of their sheer abundance of pure white and translucent calcite ...

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    “Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
    The dark unfathom’d caves of ocean bear:
    Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
    And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”
    —Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

    “At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    “But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.”
    —Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)