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Image: Snail Shell Cave Karst Window

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Description: This is in the main entrance of Snail Shell Cave in Tennessee. It is a Karst Window entrance, where a collapse has occured into the middle of a cave stream passage. Here you are in one arm of the passage looking into the other arm. The cave extends for long distances each way with flotation required in much of it.
Title: Snail Shell Cave Karst Window
Credit: Own work
Author: Dave Bunnell
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