Sentences with phrase «ceilings of caves»

Back in 2007, Bower reported evidence that some of the Stone Age curving and crisscrossing lines on the ceilings of caves were created by children, suggesting that this «finger fluting» might have been a prehistoric form of finger painting (SN: 4/28/07, p. 264).

By LEIGH DAYTON and MAGGIE McDONALD About 14 000 years ago an ice - age hunter painted three extraordinary bison on the ceiling of a cave.

These spiky mineral deposits, known collectively as speleothems, grow layer by layer as surface water percolates through the ground dissolving limestone as it goes, and finally forms droplets that hang from the ceiling of a cave.

If you have a problem with yeast, you will see strings (like legs) travelling down into the water from the saliva floating on the top, these look a little like the subtle strands you see hanging from the ceiling of a cave which glow worms produce.

[8] The mechanism of formation is the deposition of material on the ceilings of caves, however with lava stalactites formation happens very quickly in only a matter of hours, days, or weeks, whereas limestone stalactites may take up to thousands of years.

Huge stalactites can be found at depths starting around 100 feet / 30mt hanging from the ceiling of caves.

On the way out, the passageway will look as if it is snowing from above due to our exhaust bubbles knocking sediment off the ceiling of the cave.

Located below a vast overhanging rock, the ceilings of the caves are painted beautifully with murals of various Hindu gods and goddesses.

(Stalactites, which form on the ceilings of caves, are not such a wealth of information.