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Longmen Caves was first constructed in the Emperor Taihe's Reign of the Northern Wei Dynasty 488 AD. The construction lasted many years from the Wei Dynasty through the Northern Qi, Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties etc.
You will find countless buddhas in every size and in every nook and crannie in the large caves including the 30' high budda. There are some 2,345 caves and niches on this UNESCO World Heritage Site.
have I mentioned (more than 50 times) how enjoyable the ocean cave kayahking was off Thailaind? Didn't think so ;)
Minnetonka Cave is the largest limestone rock cave in the state of Idaho. It is located in Cache National Forest in Bear Lake County, Idaho, United States, above the village of St. Charles (located at the north end of Bear Lake).
Exploring one of the many caves found on the North Pembrokeshire coast, between Abereiddy and Porthgain.
This photo flowstone in the cave at Lewis and Clark Caverns State Park was taken without flash. I am always surprised how well the Canon Mark IV does in really low light. The image has noise but turned out better than I expected.
Though they bear their name, Lewis and Clark never saw the caves, however, they did passed trough the canyon where the caves are located. On July 31, 1805 they camped within a mile of the caverns. From oral histories we know that several of the native tribes knew of their existence. Given the right weather condition steam arose from natural cave entrances.
In 1882, after hearing stories from Native Americans of great caves, two men, Charles Brooke and Mexican John, from Whitehall Montana decided to explore the area looking for caves. They found the entrance but neither shared the exact location. The caves were rediscovered in 1892 by two local hunters, Tom Williams and Burt Pannell. The hole they found was too deep to enter so Williams returned in 1898 with ropes, candles, and six other men. They lowered themselves in to “Discovery Hole”. Williams later built rope ladders and led parties into the cave on candle lii tours.
In 1902 Williams convinced local investor, Dan Morrison, to develop the caverns for tours. The problem was the cave was on land granted to the railroad. A law suit followed, and Morrison lost but the cave became know as Morrisons Cave. The railroad gave the property to the Federal Government.
On May 11 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed the area around the caverns entrance as Lewis and Clark National Monument. He named it in honor of the two early explorers. The monument was enlarged by President Taft in 1911. After becoming a National Monument, the caverns was operated on an erratic basis under the control of the Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, and in 1917 under the control of the newly formed National Park Service. Technically, after 1917, the caverns were closed, with only a custodian and Mr. Morrison holding keys to the locked cave until 1936 when the area surrounding the caverns became a state park. The park has been known as both Morrison Caverns State Park and Lewis and Caverns State Park with the State of Montana finally decided on the later.
Much of the park as we see it today is due in large part to the efforts of the Civilian Conservation Core during Great Depression of the 1930s. From the summer of 1935 until the summer of 1941 there were 175 to 200 young men working in or around the cave. Many improvements were added during this period, including 3.2 miles of scenic highway through Greer Gulch to the parking area, a refurbished picnic area, the stone Headquarters House, and extensive development work inside the cavern. Today the Lewis and Clarks Caverns is a National Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Geologically the growth of a limestone cave requires more than soluble rock and acidic water. In addition, the permeability of the limestone must be concentrated along joints, faults, or bedding planes to facilitate water flow. Sufficient topographic relief must be present from surface stream entrenchment that water will flow quickly through the subsurface.
Lewis and Clark Caverns formed in units of the Mississippian Madison Limestone. The caverns are localized at the base of a unit of the Madison called the Mission Canyon Limestone, There the groundwater flow was perched above the a less-soluble and less permeable unit called the Lodgepole Limestone which caused flow and dissolution to be concentrated along the boundary of the two units. A small Laramide (a period of mountain building in western North America between 75 to 40 million years ago) anticline provided fractures in the rock, opening up bedding plane faults and axial plane joints. Dissoultion of the cave began within the past four million years, when the Jefferson River cut a 1500 foot deep canyon through the anticline.
This is part of a Hindu ceremony . If I understand correctly first your wishes and dreams are put on a piece of paper ,then they are blessed by the Suami . The papers are burnt along with tons of incense . This is close to the end of the cave where there are openings to the outside .
This cool cave in Indonesia was one of the highlights of my trip. It was about an hour ride on motorbike up to a small town on the coast. The road was undergoing some construction so it was really rough. I almost laid the bike down in some loose gravel! Fortunately I was going slow. Once at the village, I walked down to the shore and found a guy who was willing to take me to the cave. As soon as I got on the boat, about 20 kids all jumped on for the ride! The kids kept me good company on the way there. Once in the cave, I jumped in for a refreshing swim. When you swim under the back part, it opens up into another large chamber where you can climb the wall and jump off. Tons of fun! But then the light started getting good, so I got out and took a few photos. It wasn't until I processed this one that I could see all the silt I stirred up in the water when I got out. It probably would have taken awhile for it to settle back out. The tide had gone out by the time I exited, and I had to walk a good ways through the water to get to the boat. The kids were having fun swimming and goofing off. Experiences like these make me appreciate the simple things in life!
Cave's unique ACE Cougar Willowbrook Warrior J921 TUK takes on passengers in Solihull on 9th October, 1998.
Hercules Cave by Henriette Laidlaw
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An amazing experience, I thought he was about to jump normally, so when I snapped I did not realise what a shot I was going to get - BTW the jumper did a safe jump, See my other photos of the jumper preparing:
I am Darkday's photographer but sometimes I get to be her photography subject. Here I am in the rock section of the amazing storm drain called Aqua Cave having a little cave adventure
Organ Cave is a large and historic cave in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA. The surrounding community takes its name from the cave.
In November 1973, the Organ Cave System — also known as the Organ-Hedricks Cave System — was registered as a National Natural Landmark for being "the largest cave system in the State, containing many caves, one of which is Organ Cave. Noted also for its saltpeter troughs and vats." (It is now the third-longest known cave in the state, after the Friars Hole Cave System in the same county and the Hellhole System in Pendleton County.) Organ Cave has also been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2005.
Significant fossil discoveries bear witness to the early natural history of Organ Cave: giant ground sloth, grizzly bear, nine-banded armadillo, sabre-tooth cat, reindeer and an Ice Age porcupine. Organ Cave's human history is attested by flint arrowheads used by early American Indians. Evidence of early white settlers in the cave is suggested by the date "1704" scratched on a wall, but this may be a later addition since the first white settlers to Greenbrier County came only in the 1740s.
The cave was used since before 1835 as a source for nitre (saltpeter) for the manufacture of gunpowder. During the American Civil War, Confederate soldiers under the command of General Robert E. Lee again mined the cave for nitre. The cave today has the nation's largest collection of Civil War-era saltpeter hoppers. Studies have shown the cave dirt is high in calcium nitrate, which was turned into potassium nitrate using these hoppers.
Organ Cave was first surveyed by members of the National Speleological Society in July 1948. For many years it was considered the longest cave in the world. As of 28 April 2010, the Organ Cave System had 38.452 miles (61.882 km) of surveyed cave passage making it the 39th longest cave in the world, the 9th longest in the United States, and the 3rd longest in West Virginia.