Here is a captivating new introduction to the world's most fascinating caves. ""Caves"" explores every nook and cranny of these nature-made creations, including lava caves, sea caves, and glacial caves, from Kentucky's Mammoth Cave, to the amazing Paleolithic paintings of Lascaux, to Fingal's Cave of Scotland, which inspired Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture. Engrossing facts about the geologic origins of these underground voids, their astonishing speleothems, or formations, such as stalactites and stalagmites, and the microscopic extremophile organisms that dwell within are enhanced by exciting full-color and black-and-white images and a wealth of other educational resources for further exploration. ""In the Field"" sections discuss fluid dynamics, carbon-14 dating, mud polarity, volcanic tremors, and additional related subjects.

 

This book is part of a book series called The Extreme Earth .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 142 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Facts On File Inc .

Jeanne K. Hanson is a Minneapolis-based science journalist with degrees from Wellesley College and Harvard University. The author of several books on natural history, Hanson speaks regularly about the subject on Minnesota Public Radio.