Sentences with phrase «dry caves»

And feces of long - dead Indians who lived in dry caves in Nevada remain sufficiently well preserved to be examined for hookworm and other parasites.

This giant - lemur graveyard lies in a freshwater cave some 42 metres deep in the arid south - western region of Madagascar, which is pocked with dry caves and water - filled sinkholes.

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief Trending Story: E. & J. Gallo Deploys Data - Driven App to Harvest a Better Grape The world's oldest winery is a cool, dry cave near the tiny village of Areni, in southeast Armenia.

Yet in cool, arid conditions, such as dry caves, excreted feces can preserve bacterial DNA for centuries.

Beautiful underground dry caves with stalactite and stalagmite formations and a spectacular fresh water cenote.

Tours start with a scenic view up the Hummingbird Highway to the Blue Hole National Park, where the famous cathedral - like dry caves exist and are ready for your exploration.

When sea levels rose at the end of the Ice Age, the once dry cave filled with sea water producing the hole that now measures 1000 feet across with a depth of over 460 feet.

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The Grutas de Loltun, or Loltun Caves, are a large, impressive and beautifully natural underground, dry cave network located approximately 10 minutes (7 km) from the small and traditional Mayan city of...

Recent discoveries of the dung deposits of Pleistocene animals in dry caves and alcoves on the Colorado Plateau, including those of mammoth, bison, horse, sloth, extinct forms of mountain goats, and shrub oxen, have provided floristic assemblages from which temperature and moisture requirements for such assemblages can be deduced in order to develop paleoenvironmental reconstructions tied to an absolute chronology.

In recent years, researchers have identified a small group of stalactites that appear to have calcified underwater instead of in a dry cave.

At Chechem Ha, a large, dry cave 25 miles from Actun Tunichil Muknal, Moyes found the same distribution.

Godfrey says that these only grow in a dry cave — not underwater — so dating the age of the tips of them may pinpoint the time of flooding.

Most of these are dry caves, but Leo guided us through one of the wet caves, where we snorkeled with cave shrimp.

When you're able to pull yourself away from Haena's stunning beaches, you can travel a mile or so down the road, to experience the Wet and Dry Caves.

Hike through some of Bonaire's dry caves or snorkel in a flooded freshwater cave.

For millions of years the Blue Hole was a dry cave and for this period, huge stalactites and stalagmites slowly formed.

To park, continue north from there to Haena Beach Park (across from the dry caves).

The hole is the opening to what was a dry cave system during the Ice Age.

You'll see some Mayan ruins, a dry cave and swim in a refreshing cenote.

Explore a dry cave that holds special meaning to the Mayans.