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    landforms. This cave is known as a living cave, meaning that formations are still being created within the cavern walls. Inside Kartchner, it is quite moist and humid, both being common characteristics that living caves share. Today, water stick drips and trickles inside the caves, shaping the caverns even more. The cave, now knows as Kartchner Caverns, was discovered in 1974 by two men named Gary Tenen and Randy Tufts. The duo had been searching for an untouched, undiscovered cave for years.…

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    his central incident being a possible assault in a cave. The heroine, Adela Quested, wants to see the Marabar Caves so Dr. Aziz arranges an outing. The caves are isolated in a barren wasteland, unadorned, strange, and uncanny. Adela becomes overwhelmed by the caves and eventually runs out of the caves, falling down the hillside into a racist English community. She accuses Dr. Aziz of assaulting her because of her bad bruises and scrapes. The cave is what readers have to analyze because it…

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    Manichean Texts

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    Manichean Texts of the Silk Road Tun-Huang was a major destination along the Silk Road. The caves of the thousand Buddhas contained many important manuscripts and pieces of art which have been used by historians to learn about the cultures of the Silk Road. Among these were three Manichean texts written in Chinese. These are the Hymnscroll, the Compendium of the Doctrines of Mani, and the Traité Pelliot. These are significant because they are some of the only written documents we have of the…

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    Hudson Valley Ice Age

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    The last ice age happened 2 million years ago until 10,000 years ago. At this point, North America is at its normal position, north of the equator. The glacier that covered the Ice Age was the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Before the Ice Age, there was a valley called the Hudson Valley. During the Ice Age a glacier scraped through the rock, which gouged out 240 meters of rock. The sediments got removed from their previous location and deposited in a huge pile, a terminal moraine in Long Island. The…

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    Ancient Speos Cave

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    mountains, normally we found caves inside. The ancient Egyptians progressively enhanced these natural existed caves until they were buildings altogether, or until they appeared as buildings carved into the solid rock. The Egyptians used these caves in their worship. The god in the ordinary city-temples repeated the First Time when god emerged from the waters of chaos on the primeval mound. However, in the cave-shrine resembles the womb from which the god will be born. The cave-shrine is…

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    Hall Of Bulls Analysis

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    Lascaux Caves. The Lascaux Caves were discovered in 1940 in the southwestern region of France called Dordogne. The painting has been dated to 15,000 BCE. The mediums used to create the Halls of Bulls were white limestone, charcoal, and ocher (an earth material that is pigmented in a wide range of colors). The Hall of Bulls is roughly 62 feet in length and with a variation of different heights ranging from 18 feet tall to 25 feet tall.…

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    The cave of Chauvet may be the most important discovery of cave work ever. Some historians believe that the Cave may possibly some of the oldest cave art know to the world. The cave is very beautiful and historical and it is very important to the study of cave art. The cave was discover on the eighteenth of December, Nineteen Ninety Four. The cave was accidently discovered when Jean-Marie Chauvet and his two other speleologists friends were wondering around the Ardèche Valley, in southern France…

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    animal studies in the style of cave drawings. As we’ve already covered, the Cosquer Cave is located in the Calanque de Morgiou in Marseille, France. Its newer art consists of signs and 177 animals, representing both "classical" animals such as bison, ibex, and horses, and marine animals such as seals and what appear to be auks and jellyfish. But the older art consists of 65 hand stencils and other related motifs. While the focus is certainly on the handprints on Cosquer’s cave walls, you can…

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    Mexican Pyramids

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    10 Nov. 2014 Tara Linehan GEO 101, Physical Geography Crystal Caves of Naica, Mexico In 1794, according to crystalink early prospectors of Chihuahua City discovered the Naica mine. At the base of the hills the prospectors struck a vein of silver. During that time, people’s interest was in silver and gold. In the beginning of the 1900s, the Mexican Revolution caused a switch from gold and silver to lead and zinc, which the mine had plenty of. Revolutionary troops started to demand money from…

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    Niaux Cave Research Paper

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    It’s important to remember that Niaux Cave is one of Europe's most impressive Paleolithic rock art galleries of cave paintings. Niaux Cave has been visited since the 17th century - as shown by the graffiti, dated as early as 1602. But it was not until 1906, when the cave paintings in the main chamber of the cave—Salon Noir—were acknowledged as prehistoric, that the preservation of the cave and the study of the paintings began. Now, through radiocarbon dating of the charcoal, we know the rock art…

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