Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > Cave
Cave
A natural cavity located underground or in the side of a hill or cliff, generally of a size to admit a human. Caves occur in all types of rocks and topographic situations. They may be formed by many different erosion processes. The most important are created by ground waters that dissolve the common soluble rocks—limestone, dolomite, gypsum, and salt. Limestone caves are the most frequent, longest, and deepest. Lava-tube caves, sea caves created by wave action, and caves caused by piping in unconsolidated rocks are the other important types. The science of caves is known as speleology.
This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.
0
0
Improve it
- Part of Speech: noun
- Synonym(s):
- Blossary:
- Industry/Domain: Science
- Category: General science
- Company: McGraw-Hill
- Product:
- Acronym-Abbreviation:
Other Languages:
Member comments
Terms in the News
Featured Terms
Industry/Domain: Education Category: Colleges & universities
Madrid Polytechnic University
Madrid Polytechnic University (UPM) was founded in 1970 in Madrid (Spain) and it counts with different Technical Schools of Engineering and ...
Contributor
Featured blossaries
Browers Terms By Category
- Nightclub terms(32)
- Bar terms(31)
Bars & nightclubs(63) Terms
- Health insurance(1657)
- Medicare & Medicaid(969)
- Life insurance(359)
- General insurance(50)
- Commercial insurance(4)
- Travel insurance(1)
Insurance(3040) Terms
- Lingerie(48)
- Underwear(32)
- Skirts & dresses(30)
- Coats & jackets(25)
- Trousers & shorts(22)
- Shirts(17)
Apparel(222) Terms
- Zoological terms(611)
- Animal verbs(25)