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Caves: The World Beneath the World!

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« Reply #12 on: November 24, 2009, 05:47:05 AM »

(images credit: Jason Gulley)

No sign of Superman or Megatron there yet:


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« Reply #13 on: November 24, 2009, 05:47:53 AM »

Mount Kenya's Ice Cave Bobby Model, National Georgaphic)


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« Reply #14 on: November 24, 2009, 05:48:43 AM »

Ice Cave in Matanuska Glacier, Alaska - photo by George F. Mobley, National Geographic

A lot of ice caves grow "hair" - ice extrusions, some are quite strange-looking:


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Brazil: Crystalline Underground Waters

Mato Grosso do Sul region in Brazil (and especially the quiet town of Bonito) boasts many marvelous underground lakes: Gruta do Lago Azul, Gruta do Mimoso, Aquário Natural. Intricate limestone formations and grottos hide the intensely-colored pools and waterfalls (many adventure tours there feature diving, some pools are more than 100 meters deep):