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[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 5 points 1 day ago

Interesting ... what's special about that one spot on earth that all 4 of the deepest caves would form there?

Anyway, I imagine this graphic is likely to change in the future, since the deepest parts of caves are often the least well-explored. When I was doing work as a cave explorer, we often did day trips to map parts of the upper cave, but trying to get to the deepest portions involved major multi-day expeditions. To get to the deepest unexplored frontier of one cave I worked in required a 4-day journey, one way.

[-] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Interesting ... what's special about that one spot on earth that all 4 of the deepest caves would form there?

there's a note in the middle

[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago

Pretty much all caves are in karst topography. What's so special about this area in particular?

[-] valtia@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

IIRC it's because the caves start high up in the mountains and are mostly above sea level. Caves that start closer to sea level can't be as deep, something about the water table. Or at least, we can't explore caves as easily when they're full of water. I think those caves in Georgia are mapped up to where the water table is and are theorized to be even deeper

[-] Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

According to Wikipedia, this chart is inaccurate.

[-] StillAlive@piefed.world 1 points 1 day ago

When are we going to start building sietches?

[-] mrsemi@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Chart is missing "Your Mom"

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