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Caves: new and old |
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| Authors: | MICHAEL J. SIMMS |
| Affiliation: | Geology Department at Trinity College, Dublin. |
| Abstract: | Caves represent underground drainage routes formed by the passage of water through soluble rocks. Caves and the deposits they contain preserve evidence of landscape evolution and climatic change together with sediments and fossils that elsewhere have been destroyed by erosion. |
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