Salt ingestion caves.
Large vertebrate herbivores, when they find a salt-bearing layer of rock, say in a cliff face, can produce sizable voids where, overgenerations, they have removed and consumed salty rock. The cavities formed by this natural animal process constitute a uniqueclass of caves that can be called salt ing...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of South Florida Libraries
2006-01-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Speleology |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ijs.speleo.it/pdf/63.533.35_Lundquist.Varnedoe.pdf |