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rappel rack
Natural environment; Speleology
A long U-shaped steel bar that holds several brake bars and is used for rappelling.
vertical caving
Natural environment; Speleology
Caving that includes a lot of ascending and descending.
vertical cave
Natural environment; Speleology
A vertical passage within a cave system, formed along joints by which underground watercourses are transferred from a higher to a lower bedding plane. They may become transformed ...
abseil
Natural environment; Speleology
A controlled descent of a rope using friction obtained by either wrapping the rope around the body in a particular way or passing the rope through a carabiner or passing the rope ...
rappel
Natural environment; Speleology
The art of descending a rope using some sort of friction between the rope and the rappeller to control the rate of descent. Synonym: abseil.
fossil
Natural environment; Speleology
Any remains or traces of animals or plants that lived in the prehistoric past, whether bone, cast, track, imprint, pollen, or any other evidence of their existence.
calcium carbonate
Natural environment; Speleology
Naturally occurring compound with the chemical formula CaCO3. It occurs commonly as the mineral calcite and less commonly as aragonite, and is the major component of carbonate ...
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