Caves Part II

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Caves are like another world, deep underground.
Sometimes, you have to climb down long stairs to
get to a cave.
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But sometimes, there are no stairs, there is just
a deep pit. In this picture, you are looking up
from way, way down in a cave pit.
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Some caves are so big and so pretty, that they
are famous. Like Carlsbad Caverns, in New
Mexico, here
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Here is a plan, or map, of Carlsbad Caverns. Can
you find the Big Room?
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Here is a big model of Carlsbad Caverns. Can you
find the Big Room again?
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Lets pretend were going into Carlsbad Caverns.
Here is the entrance. You have to go down, down,
down!
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Lets look at some formations. Here is the
Witchs Finger, a tall stalagmite!
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And here is a bunch of stalactites, with a
beautiful column.
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And look! We found the Big Room! Here is a
black and white picture of it.
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CC Rock of Ages, Big Room
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And here is a color picture of the Big Room.
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It is like another world. But it really is part
of the Earthjust deep underground.
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After your trip, you go back to the entrance.
Maybe you will see the bats come out at dusk!
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Next, lets go to Kentucky, and explore Mammoth
Cave, which is here
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Mammoth Cave has some nice cave formations, too,
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but mainly, it is famous because it is the
longest cave in the whole world! Look at the
yellow in the next picturethose are cave tunnels!
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So lets visit Mammoth Cave!
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First we have to go down, down, down again!
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Inside, there are many tunnels. Some are small,
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some are bigger,
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and some are very big!
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Mammoth Cave is plainer than Carlsbad Caverns.
It doesnt have as many formations.
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But it is huge, and it does have an underground
river called River Styx coming out of it!
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MC River Styx
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Next, lets look at sea caves, ice caves, and
lava tubes! Sea caves are on coasts and are
made by waves.
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Here is a view inside the worlds largest sea
cave,
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where there are some sea lions!
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Ice caves are tunnels inside glaciers and
continental ice, like Antarctica and Greenland.
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Ice cave
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Pretty, but cold!
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Here is a very big ice cave, in Antarctica!
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Victoria Land, Antarctica
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Finally, lava tubes are made when when a volcano
erupts,
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and makes lava,
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and the lava goes under ground and digs out a
hole, like this one in Mt. Etna, on the island of
Sicily.
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When the lava cools, and the volcano stops
erupting, we can walk through lava tubes!
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Lava tube
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Lava tube
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The End

• Luray Caverns, Virginia