Sentences with phrase «including stalagmites»

These breathtaking caves are filled with stunning limestone structures, including stalagmites and stalactites.

You will have the unique opportunity to go snorkeling in the crystalline water in this cenote that is known for its phenomenal rock formations including stalagmites and stalactites.

The Giant Volcano set also includes stalagmites that can be moved around.

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Scattered bear skulls, including one with a stalagmite growing from its top, litter the floor of the cave.

The article, «Extreme rainfall activity in the Australian tropics reflects changes in the El Niño / Southern Oscillation over the last two millennia,» presents a precisely dated stalagmite record of cave flooding events that are tied to tropical cyclones, which include storms such as hurricanes and typhoons.

Geoscientist Anton Vaks of the University of Oxford led an international team of experts — including the Arabica Caving Club in Irkutsk — in sampling the spindly cave growths known as stalagmites and stalactites across Siberia and down into the Gobi Desert of China.

«We painstakingly measured the thickness of each annual growth ring in five stalagmites taken from the cave, including one that provides a continuous annual record spanning more than 1800 years,» says Baker.

Though there are many caves, only a small number have the best conditions for climate study, including 100 percent relative humidity, constant temperatures, no cave winds, and the actual stalagmites — free of holes and decay — forming in the cave.

In the cavern - type cenotes, visitors can witness breathtaking limestone formations, including stalactites and stalagmites.

In Dream Gate Cenote you'll find many delicate rock formations — including soda straw formations, which are the preliminary stage of stalactite and stalagmite formation.

As you swim in the refreshing waters of the cavern, you will be amazed by the breathtaking rock formations, including stalactites and stalagmites.

Cayman Crystal Cave Tour includes tour guide, stalactite and stalagmite crystal structures and formations, tour tropical forest under which the caves are formed, tropical plants, parrots and bats (dur 90 min)

The water is crystal clear, and though you'll see few... MORE fish, you'll have lots of opportunities to see stalactites and stalagmites as well as wildlife including birds, bats, iguanas and more.

fish, you'll have lots of opportunities to see stalactites and stalagmites as well as wildlife including birds, bats, iguanas and more.

This long tour includes floating past giant stalagmites and stalactites looming above, as well as many underground waterfalls.

Your expert guides will lead you on an extensive route into the depths of the Earth, where you will witness a truly beautiful and strange underground world full of amazing rock formations including an array of stalagmites and stalactites.

His varied output includes 18 - foot - tall phallic «stalagmites» dripping with seemingly viscous urethane; rough - hewn ceramics with primordial glazes; paintings done with Robitussin - red nail polish or graffiti - like spray - paint; sculptures of smudged and scratched white minimalist forms; bus - sized cages on wheels; and videos of frustrated male pornstars masturbating to no end.

Curated by Dr. Dimiti Ozerkov, a head of the Contemporary Art Department of the State Hermitage Museum and the Hermitage 20/21 Project, the exhibition «Sculptures and Drawings» features iconic works by the artist, including the earlier piece Minister (1988), a stainless steel sculpture that resembles an ancient cave's stalagmites, and a later work Complete Omnivore (1993) made from iron and plaster, as well as new glass works.

When you combine all the various proxies, including ice cores, coral, lake sediments, glaciers, boreholes & stalagmites, it's possible to reconstruct Northern Hemisphere temperatures without tree - ring proxies going back 1,300 years (Mann 2008).

Since the hockey stick paper in 1998, there have been a number of proxy studies analysing a variety of different sources including corals, stalagmites, tree rings, boreholes and ice cores.

To reach further back, the team relied on natural stand - ins, or proxies, that include ice cores, ocean and lake sediments, mineralized «rings» from slices of stalactites or stalagmites in caves, coral growth rings, and tree rings.

Scientists have pieced together the climate history from 3000 year old stalagmites and discovered a record of climate changes that may have influenced major historical events, including the fall of the Roman Empire and the Viking Age of expansion....

There are a number of different types of proxy data types in this group including glacial deposits, glacial erosional features, shoreline features, aeolian deposits, lake sediments, relict soil deposits, and speleothems (depositional features like stalactites and stalagmites).

Some of the better proxies include Greenland ice, which gets us back something in the range of ~ 130kya (~ 130,000 years ago), and speleothem (stalactite / stalagmite) and flowstone deposits, which arguably can get us back a few million years or so.