Sentences with phrase «large stalagmite»
Tucked 100 feet inside the 460 - foot - long cavern, behind a large stalagmite, the team found bits of burned grasses and sedges, along with ash and charred bone fragments.
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Today we can only guess as to why a group of Neanderthals built a series of large stalagmite structures in a French cave — but the fact they did provides a rare glimpse into our extinct cousin's potential for social organisation in a challenging environment.
It's the largest cave opening in the world, and is home to one of the world's largest stalagmites, frozen waterfalls, flow stone walls, stalagmite forests and other incredible formations.
Not exact matches
Because of the large amount of water running into the cave, the stalagmite they choose to analyze had grown about 2.5 centimeters in 50 years.
Humankind's close evolutionary cousins built large, circular structures out of stalagmites in a French cave around 176,500 years ago, researchers say.
Deep within a French cave where no light penetrates are two curious structures: large rings of stalagmites, some broken and arranged like the rails of old - fashioned wooden fences.
Carved on a stalagmite in the large chamber are several simple faces one on top of the other.
It flows to the South China Sea through a nearly 15 - mile - long cave that's lined with stalactites and stalagmites and contains the largest cave chamber in the world.
Go to Jewel Cave to see arabesque displays of stalactites and stalagmites; Mammoth Cave for fossils and mind - bogglingly large chambers; and Lake Cave to watch light filter through spindly rock formations and reflect off an underground lake.
Some are large with spectacular stalagmite and stalactite formations, while others are so small you can barely squeeze inside.
Son Doong Cave is known as the world's largest natural cave, housing many limestone grottoes, stalactites and stalagmites.
Once at the bottom, the cave opens to a large cathedral with giant stalactite and stalagmite formations jutting out from the walls of the cave.
The Waipu Caves represent the largest cave passage in Northland with underground river and lakes, stalactites and stalagmites.