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Caves: new and old
Author(s) -
SIMMS MICHAEL J.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
geology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.188
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1365-2451
pISSN - 0266-6979
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2451.1990.tb00686.x
Subject(s) - cave , geology , erosion , archaeology , paleontology , geography
Caves represent underground drainage routes formed by the passage of water through soluble rocks. Caves and the deposits they contain preserve evidence of landscape evolution and climatic change together with sediments and fossils that elsewhere have been destroyed by erosion.