2007-02-26 00:12:14 · 3 answers · asked by Ojdeh 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Most cave systems are created in rocks formed chiefly out of calcium carbonate, like limestone. This is because calcium carbonate is soluble in slightly acidic water, and rainwater is slightly acidic. The kind of topography where you find caves and sinkholes and dry stream valleys on limestones is called karst topography. If you have water flow through limestones, you can get the wearing away of underground channels, and the eventual formation of a cave system.
Here in New York we have a lot of "caves" created a different way- by glaciars. Thunder rocks, Little rock City, and many of the caves in the Adirondacks were formed when glaciars pushed huge boulders-glacial erratics- up against each other, forming caves, essentially.
2007-02-26 08:41:50 · answer #1 · answered by kiddo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's so easy, a caveman could live there.
2007-02-26 08:15:12 · answer #2 · answered by adreed 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hole in mountian
2007-02-26 08:14:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋