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Caves Of Poland
This article is about the caves of Poland. Geographic distribution Tatra Mountains , there are 843 caves known in the Polish Tatra Mountains with the total length exceeding 134 km. They are within Tatra National Park. All the prominent ones are limestone karst caves of the Western Tatras, but there are also some tectonic caves. The largest and deepest caves of the Tatras (and of Poland) are located in the Czerwone Wierchy and Kominiarski Wierch massifs. Another highly promising region, the massif of Giewont, is largely unexplored due to its strict nature conservation status. * Bańdzioch Kominiarski * Bliźniacza Studnia * Dudnica * Dudowa Studnia * Dziura * Dziura Wyżnia – Jaskinia Lisia * Dziurka w Trawce * Górne Kominy * Jasiowa Dziura * Jaskinia Bystrej * Jaskinia Czarna * Jaskinia Goryczkowa * Jaskinia Kalacka * Jaskinia Kamienne Mleko * Jaskinia Kasprowa Niżnia * Jaskinia Kasprowa Średnia * Jaskinia Kasprowa Wyżnia * Jaskinia Kozia * Jaskinia Lejbusi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cave
A cave or cavern is a natural void in the ground, specifically a space large enough for a human to enter. Caves often form by the weathering of rock and often extend deep underground. The word ''cave'' can refer to smaller openings such as sea caves, rock shelters, and grottos, that extend a relatively short distance into the rock and they are called ''exogene'' caves. Caves which extend further underground than the opening is wide are called ''endogene'' caves. Speleology is the science of exploration and study of all aspects of caves and the cave environment. Visiting or exploring caves for recreation may be called ''caving'', ''potholing'', or ''spelunking''. Formation types The formation and development of caves is known as ''speleogenesis''; it can occur over the course of millions of years. Caves can range widely in size, and are formed by various geological processes. These may involve a combination of chemical processes, erosion by water, tectonic forces, microorgani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kraków-Częstochowa Upland
The Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, also known as the Polish Jurassic Highland or Polish Jura ( pl, Jura Krakowsko-Częstochowska), is part of the Jurassic System of south–central Poland, stretching between the cities of Kraków, Częstochowa and Wieluń. The Polish Jura borders the Lesser Polish Upland to the north and east, the foothills of the Western Carpathians to the south and Silesian Upland to the west. The Polish Jura consists of a hilly landscape with Jurassic limestone rocks, cliffs, valleys and vast limestone formations, featuring some 220 caves. The relief of the upland developed since the Paleogene, under climatic conditions changing considerably. Its main component is a peneplain, crowned by monadnocks, rocky masses that resisted erosion, generated as hard rock on Late Jurassic buildup surrounded by less resistant bedded limestone of the same age."Pattern of karst landscape of the Cracow Upland (South Poland)" by Witold Stefan Alexandrowicz and Zofia Alexandrowicz, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaskinia Wielka Śnieżna
Jaskinia Wielka Śnieżna ("great snowy cave") is a limestone cave system in Mount Małołączniak in the Western Tatra Mountains, of the Carpathian Mountains System, in southern Poland. The cave is within Tatra National Park, Poland, Tatra National Park. With the length of , and vertical range of , it is the longest, largest, and deepest cave in Poland. Morphology Wielka Śnieżna has five entrances: * Jaskinia Śnieżna ("snowy cave") – – discovered in 1959 * Jaskinia nad Kotlinami ("cave over the kettles") – – discovered in 1966, connected to Śnieżna in 1968 * Jasny Awen ("light aven") – – first explored in 1959, connected to Wielka Śnieżna in 1978 * Jaskinia Wielka Litworowa ("great angelica cave") – – connected to Wielka Śnieżna in 1995 * Jaskinia Wilcza ("gray wolf, wolf cave") – – discovered in 1996, connected to Wielka Śnieżna in 1999 They are connected by a complicated system of pitch (vertical space), shafts and passages. Several o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
