Mammoth Cave, the world's longest known cave system, stretches 426 miles under Kentucky. The cave's limestone began forming 330 million years ago when the region was submerged under an ocean. Visitors ...
Dimitri Laurent explores a typical gallery in the Nébélé Cave, which was formed by sulfuric acid speleogenesis. You can see a deep notch that indicates the former presence of a river, and sodium ...
Boulder, Colo., USA: A study published on Friday in the journal Geology uses isotopes of sulfur to fingerprint the sources of sulfuric acid that have carved unique and beautiful cave systems in the ...