Hranice Abyss: The Deepest Blue Hole In The World

The acidic ground water was necessary due to the fact that pure water could not dissolve the limestone and marble. The acidic ground water absorbed some carbon dioxide from the air and the decaying vegetation located in the soil and formulated carbonic acid. The carbonic acid was able to dissolve out “cavities” (3) in the bedrock and when the level of the water dropped, the passageways were ready for the next step of the development of caves. There is water that seeps into the cave at a slower rate. The acid is weak but it is able to dissolve the bedrock above the cave and is able to redeposit the minerals, which in this case is calcite, on the floors, ceilings, and walls of the Lehman Caves in the form of “cave decorations” (3). These are still growing today, and because of it they are very

In class and watching this movie we find out that Chauvet Cave was discovered in December of 1994 when Christian Hillaire, Eliette Brunel-Deschamps and Jean-Marie accidently found it, because they had felt a draft. In the introduction to the movie we find out that the cave sits next to this beautiful river named Pont d’Arc. We later find out that it might be this river that feeds into the cave that brings some bones into it, such as golden eagle bones. I also find out that the entrance that these hikers had found was actually not the true entrance. We find out that the actual entrance was covered when the cave had collapsed in earlier times. I was really surprised that they were able to find the actual entrance. I thought since the cave had collapsed that it would have damaged or destroyed the original entrance.

Formed due to the constant erosion of limestone cliffs some 10–20 million years ago, the caves in the cliffs are the result of gradual erosion of the softer limestone due to the blasting winds and the stormy Southern Ocean. Eventually, the caves took the shape of arches. When they collapsed rock mounds up to 45 metres high were left isolated from the shore. The view of the 12 Apostles at sunrise and sunset is beautiful as they change colour from dark and foreboding in shadow to dazzling sandy yellow under a full sun.

Because the desolation and erosion depends the valley with time reducing the water table and allowing the water from the cave to diapate.

At the start of my journalistic investigation I stumbled upon a 2010 documentary by the explorer Wes Skiles titled Water’s Journey. The short film is available online free of charge and follows a scientific team of four as they traverse the Florida aquifer in real time. The goal of their mission was to explore and extensively map the inside of the Florida Aquifer for the first time. The four individuals on this groundbreaking mission included Tom Morris, a cave explorer and biologist, Jill Heinerth, a technical dive specialist, the Wes Skiles, and electromagnetics expert Brian Pease. Pease designed a revolutionary transmitter that was able to send signals through Florida’s solid rock and water below, which allowed for him and Skiles on the surface to actively track Morris and Heinerth as they explored the depths below.

sinkhole. It has served as an oasis for both humans and animals for over thousands of years now.

The Crystals were made While the cave still had the water inside of it some of the water was saturated with calcite a tough shiny mineral. The calcite was re-located underwater in the cave in the form of spar. Spar is a type of crystal found commonly in the cave. The cave is abundant of stalagmites and stalactites every twist or turn. One mineral gypsum can create beautiful flower, spider, and needle formations. Calcite can also create criss-crossing boxwork formations.

Have you ever wanted to have the best time of your life, floating underground and exploring under the sea? Many people associate Cancun with simply being a resort-and-club destination, unaware of its beautiful lagoon, coral reefs and other great sites. I’m here to tell you about my experience in Cancun, exploring some of its most beautiful eco-archeological wonders. Swimming underground?

Imagine being in a tiny submarine. You’re almost 12,000 feet under the ocean, and you see nothing but darkness out of the little window. Then, suddenly, a massive burst of color makes you jump. As you get closer to the object, it appears to be a enormous, creepy, ghostlike sunken

Since the induction of the National Park Service, national parks have been tasked with sharing and protecting natural spaces in equal measure. This can be a challenge at times when the desire to share a place where the public can engage with nature conflicts with the need to protect it. One of the most fragile, but also most enticing places, is the intertidal. This is where the ocean meets land, and is home to a diverse amount of marine life. Anemone cave is an example of one of these places. It is a sea cave that lies within Schooner Point, and it used to be a very popular attraction in the park. Years of visitation by park goers started to take its toll on the cave, with much of the marine life being stepped on, or removed.

Pech Merle cave in south-western France has been a sacred sanctuary for at least five times as long as the Great Pyramid of Egypt. Unlike the pyramid the entire cave was man made, for the most part, the innards of the cave were made out of limestone massif by an underground river. When the river switched up its the course a four kilometer long cave was left behind. It stayed untouched and no human ever visited, until humans finally

Per Hans Christian Andersen’s account, the bottom of the ocean is nothing like what we humans imagine. Instead, a sea

If you jump into this acidic water it will eat your skin of your toe away or anything you put in there. The Danakil is the name of this place. But this alien land form is from a tectonic plate a large slow moving rock slab that makes up on Earths crust

the deepest marine trenches in the world (Rosenburg no. 6). With the interaction of the strong currents over the many reefs the topography is in a state of constant flux and development of new navigational hazards is swift (Rosenburg no. 6).

With the help of modern technology he became the first (and only) human to descend in the hole. During his adventure he wore a fire proof suit. From the pit he took a sample of soil (which was rich in extremophile bacteria). While digging the soil he found that fire was coming out the digged hole. He and his team stated that on earth there is no other place like this. Now, the hole is expanding and is said to reach 230 meters in width.