Mammoth Cave National Park Research Paper

The Boone and Everton have about equal mechanical resistance, but the Boone, mainly composed of limestone, has less chemical resistance and therefore the valley width is wider and more karst features can be seen within the exposed formation (Keen-Zebert 2016). Exposed paleocaves are seen in the cliffs along the Buffalo River, but the area has abundant cave systems that can be available for viewing or are unable to be accessed by humans. Caverns such as Mystic Caverns and Blanchard Springs Caverns (described in a later section) are visited by hundreds each year and showcase cave formations open to the public. Throughout the landscape of the Buffalo River area and Arkansas, sunken lakes can be seen with some being identified as filled sinkholes. Also along the Indian Rockhouse trail (described in a later section) two large sinkholes and multiple caves give a glimpse of the cave systems located in this

The Grand Canyon is carved by the Colorado River in the state of Arizona. The Grand Canyon is 277 miles long, about 18 miles wide and a depth of more than a mile. Any clues that scientis usually rely on have been sweap away by the rivers water or barried by landslides or destroyed by volcanos. Rocks give geologiest complete geological rocords of earth; as if each rocks told a story that was billions of years old. One clue is the "Black rocks" located at the end of this river.

For example. Waterfalls and potholes are commonly found in the upper course, and are exceedingly rare in the lower course. Meanders and Oxbow lakes are commonly found in the middle course, it is caused by erosion and deposition, these factors causes the river to have a bend during its course. Levees and flood plains are also frequently found in the lower course, there is a larger water volume, therefore floodplains are created to adapt to it’s new features, while features such as meanders will not be affective, as it has a higher chance of flood, and erosion would also change the feature 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.

The Wyandotte caves are made out of limestone like any other cave in Indiana but the Wyandotte cave has a “cliff ”so when people go they have to be careful. There is a Mount Baldy in California but the one in indiana is special. Mount Baldy isn't a mountain, it’s a sand dune. Sand dunes are mountains hills and ridges with sand on them and they “Hide” behind beaches and are affected by tides. In other words Mount Baldy is a mountain with sand on it. Mount Baldy is also known as the “living” sand dune, because every year it is someplace new, South of the shore of Lake

The Cherokee Caverns is located in 8524 Oak Ridge Highway Knoxville TN 37931 US. The cavern hold up events like music festival, Christmas, and the not so scary Halloween. Inside this wonderful caverns are inhabited by the nocturnal animals the bats. The history within the cavern began to form about 300 million years ago. There are shells and skeletons of ancient marine life would mix with sand, clay, and other material to form a rock known as copper ridge dolomite. Cherokee Caverns was discovered in 1854 by a Robert Crugdington. The cave was open to the public in 1929 under the previous name Gentry’s Cave. There were Indian artifacts that is located in the cave revealing how another entrance to the cave exist in the past. Within the cavern,

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

Valley Region of the Appalachian Mountains and Subsequent Karst Regions in the State of Virginia

Little Cottonwood Canyon is a site bursting with geological history, rock formations earthquake potential on the fault, prehistoric glacial formations, landslides, and many hazards associated with it. The Wasatch fault is bound to have a enormous earthquake in the future and has left behind numerous scars. The mountains have been engraved by glacial formations dated back to the Ice Age (~14,000 years ago). Rock falls and landslides have left hefty boulders as indication of erosion and moisture in the rocks. The hazards on this mountain range are mass wasting, radon, earthquakes, and flooding of Little Cottonwood Creek.

The Raton Basin is a structural basin situated in Las Animas and Huerfano counties of southeastern Colorado, and Colfax County of northeastern New Mexico (Speer, 1976). Although millions of years ago the Raton Basin was much different than the present. Colorado and New Mexico were covered by large shallow seas (Murray, 1978). The Basin is bounded on the west by the Sangre de Cristo Mountain range and on the east by two subsurface elements, the Apishapa Arch and the Sierra Grande Uplift. The Apishapa Arch is a northwest-southeast oriented structural extension of the Wet Mountain Uplift which terminates the basin on the northeast, whereas the Sierra Grande Uplift is a northeast-southwest oriented subsurface arch that forms the basin 's

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.

In the upper corer of the topo map, it shows the same feature that was observed in figure 6, figure 7 and figure 8, where the ancient shoreline of the Salton Sea once resided. Southwest of the topo map is shows contours lines evenly space-out and directional flow of small channels which is evident of flash flooding. So, that area is a flood plain or a sheet flow that has eroded the base of the alluvial fan. The alluvial fan is very distinctive in the topo map where the active channel flows downstream through a laterally confined mountainous valley that cuts through the alluvial fan, ancient shoreline and bleeds to a non-confined lowland of the flood

Have you ever gone to America before? Have you ever learned the 5 regions? I thing that these two would be entertaining for you to learn about.

Hranice Abyss, located in Hůrka National Park, is said to have been created by the collapse of a cave ceiling, the cave being formed by an aggressive flow of mineral water into limestone. Currently, Hranice Abyss measures 404 meters (1,325 feet) deep, though the bottom of the hole actually has not yet been reached. The mineral composition and low temperature of the waters means that exposure to these elements is harmful to both