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                              HOW ARE CAVES FORMED ?

Caves have for long been linked with the history of civilization in many interesting ways.In the stone age , men used to live in caves to protect themselves from cold and animals . Ancient people have many strange notions about caves .The people of greece belived tha their gods zeus, Pan , Dionysus and pluto lived in caves . The romans belived that caves were the homes of nymphs and siblys. People of persia worshipped caves considering them to be the abodes of God.  Today huge and beautiful caves all over the world have become centers off attraction for her tourist . Do you know how caves were formed.

A cave is deep hollow space in a mountain .It is formed in defferent ways when water waves coming from the sea , collide with the mountains , They wash away the soft stones present in between the layers of the rocks , This process continued over a period of thausands of years created large spaces inside the mountains which we call caves

Some caves are found below the earth’s surface also . These have been formed by the water stream following below the earth’s surface . The underground water streams wahs away the lime stone from the rocks and the voids so created are called caves . Quite often , waterfalls create hollow spaces within the rocks and the avoids so created are called caves . Such caves have been formed bellow niagara falls.

Caves are also formed by the volcanic changes taking place in the earth ‘s layers. Some caves are very long while some are very deep. The deepest cae is “guffre de la piere st”. Situated on the border of France and spain . It is 1310 meters (4300ft)deep .the longest cave flit ridge cave system is situated in america and is 116.8km (73 miles) long.