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Arizona State Parks. Kartchner Caverns State Park is a state park of Arizona, United States, featuring a show cave with 2.4 miles (3.9 km) of passages. [1] The park is located 9 miles (14 km) south of the town of Benson and west of the north-flowing San Pedro River. Long hidden from view, the caverns were discovered in 1974 by local cavers ...
Designated. December 1976. Florida Caverns State Park is a state park of Florida in the United States, part of the Florida State Parks system. It is located in the Florida Panhandle near Marianna. It is the only Florida state park with air-filled caves accessible to the public. [1]
Cave of the Mounds. Cave of the Winds (Colorado) Cave Without a Name. Cave-in-Rock State Park. Caverns of Sonora. Cherney Maribel Caves County Park. Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park. Colossal Cave (Arizona) Cosmic Cavern.
Derrick Cave. Fort Rock Cave. Horse Lava Tube System. Lava River Cave. Oregon Caves National Monument. Paisley Caves. Redmond Caves. Sandy Glacier Caves. Sea Lion Caves.
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A soda straw (or simply straw) is a speleothem in the form of a hollow mineral cylindrical tube. They are also known as tubular stalactites. Soda straws grow in places where water leaches slowly through cracks in rock, such as on the roofs of caves. Soda straws in caves rarely grow more than a few millimetres per year and may average one tenth ...
Calcite rafts. Calcite crystals form on the surface of quiescent bodies of water, even when the bulk water is not supersaturated with respect to calcium carbonate. The crystals grow, attach to one other and appear to be floating rafts of a white, opaque material. The floating materials have been referred to as calcite rafts or "leopard spots".