The World’s Oldest Caves: - How -Did They Survive and What Can They Tell Us?

Authors

  • Armstrong R. L. Osborne R.A.L. Osborne, Faculty of Education and Social Work, A35, University of Sydney, NSW 2006

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/ac.v36i1.215

Abstract

Parts of an open cave system we can walk around in today are more than three hundred million years old. Common sense tells even enthusiasts like me that open caves this old should not still exist, but they do! Their survival can be partly explained by extremely slow rates of surface lowering, but this is not sufficient by itself. Isolation by burial and relative vertical displacement by faults are probably also required. Now one very old set of caves have been found, are there more of them? What can they tell us?

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Published

2007-04-01

How to Cite

L. Osborne, A. R. (2007). The World’s Oldest Caves: - How -Did They Survive and What Can They Tell Us?. Acta Carsologica, 36(1). https://doi.org/10.3986/ac.v36i1.215

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Vol. 36 No. 1 (2007)

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Original papers

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