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Speleology
The study of caves, the way they are formed, physical properties and type.
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straw stalactite
Natural environment; Speleology
The simplest form of stalactite — a fragile, thin walled tube, normally of calcite, which is the diameter of the drops of water that hang from its end and continue its growth. Though only about 5mm ...
duck
Natural environment; Speleology
A place where water reaches the cave roof for a short distance and can be passed by quick submergence without swimming.
ground water
Natural environment; Speleology
The part of the subsurface water that is in the phreatic zone. Its lower limits are the zone of rock flowage or the lowest fully confining bed; its upper limits are the uppermost fully confining bed ...
sediment
Natural environment; Speleology
Material recently deposited by water, ice or wind, or precipitated from water.
blind valley
Natural environment; Speleology
A karst valley abruptly terminated by the passage underground of the watercourse which has hitherto resisted the karst processes and remained at the surface. An intermediate type, the half-blind ...
watershed
Natural environment; Speleology
A drainage basin. 2. A divide separating one drainage basin from another.
ponor
Natural environment; Speleology
Hole or opening in the bottom or side of a depression where a surface stream or lake flows either partially or completely underground into the karst ground-water system.
