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Welcome to GOCAVING.com. We will be visiting caves and caverns throughout the U.S.
We will feature a different cave each month. We will discribe the cave on our site giving as many details as possible. Our
goal is to inform you about caves before you visit so your underground adventure will be a great one.
Our featured cave
of the month is Black Chasm Cavern. This cave is located in Northern California just a short drive from Sacramento. Click
on the picture below to see it.
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Lets Talk Caves There are thousands of caves throughout the United states.
A small portion of those have been developed and opened for tours. The majority of these tours are walking but some caves
also offer additional tours sometimes called Adventure Tours. On these tours, you are usually crawling on hands and knees
or even on your stomach trying to squeeze through small openings. Also, these adventure tours are usually given in total darkness
so headlights are a must. Just about every state has caves open to the public and most are open year round.The state
with the most show caves is Missouri.
Most caves are formed by water, these are called solution caves. Solution caves are the most common caves
in the world. The water that makes caves also makes the formations in them. Caves have the most amazing formations you've
ever seen, some are larger than your average home and some can be as fragile as a human hair. These formations grow from the
ceiling (stalactites), some grow from the floor(stalagmites) and they can grow on just about any surface of a cave. The formations
grow from water depositing a mineral called calcite. The more water an area has the more formations
will grow and the larger they will become. So a cave in the Midwest where it rains often can be larger and have many formations where
as a cave in California that has little rain can be smaller with fewer formations.
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