Jewel Cave, located 13 miles west of Custer, has more than 208 miles of “mapped and surveyed passage ways,” with hundreds of suspected passages yet to be explored, according to the National Park ...

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Cave formation starts with a simple chemical reaction between water and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, creating carbonic acid. This weak acid forms when rainwater combines with CO2, then ...

Vandals have damaged Fitton Cave in Newton County. They removed several cave formations, including stalagmites and draperies, said Cassie Branstetter, a spokeswoman for the Buffalo National River. It ...

Most people come to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for its namesake — the colorful, mineral-stained sandstone cliffs that line mighty Lake Superior. Those cliffs are ...

Mammoth Cave National Park, home to the world’s longest known cave system, stretches for more than 680 kilometres, and counting, into the Earth. What began as a limestone labyrinth has turned out to ...

BAYFIELD, Wis. >> Walking atop a frozen stretch of Lake Superior’s south shore, Jon Michels paused to look at a 30-foot-tall rippled ice wall cascading over a sandstone cliff cave. Then he noted ...

Traveling around Eagle County, it is easy to wonder about the interesting geological features that dot the landscape. While we are blessed with abundant mountain peaks and canyons, there is one ...

When a villager in northern Greece broke into a limestone wall and exposed a human skull, he did not just find a fossil, he ...