Hawaiian Lava Tube Cave
Sea Cave
Ice Cave
Passage in Mammoth Cave
Distribution of Limestone Caves
Just the Facts…
• The cave system with the greatest total length of surveyed passage is Mammoth Cave (Kentucky, USA) at 591 kilometers (367 mi) in length.
• The deepest known cave (measured from its highest entrance to its lowest point) is Voronya Cave (Abkhazia), with a depth of 2,191 meters (7,188 ft).
Speleothems
Soda Straws
Soda Straws
Columns
Draperies
Flowstone
Pearls
Rimstone
Stalagmites & Stalagtites
Helictites
Taino petroglyphs (Puerto Rico)
Eurycea lucifuga
Cave Cricket: Ceuthophilus
Mexican BlindcatPrietella phreatophila
Cavefish Distribution
Satan eurystomus
Trogloglanis pattersoni
Speoplatyrhinus poulsoni
Typhlichthys subterraneus (southern cavefish)
Ozark Cavefish, Amblyopsis rosae
Eyeless Cavefish, Amblyopsis spelaea
Lateral line system
Oklahoma Cave Isopod
Spider Cave Crayfish
Bristly Cave Crayfish
Allegheny Woodrat, Neotoma magister
Indiana Bat, Myotis sodalis
Karst Topography
Florida Sinkhole
Clarksville Cave
Ward’s Entrance
The Schoharie Hilton