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Some karst regions include thousands of caves, although evidence of caves large enough for human exploration is not a required characteristic of karst.
Examples include lava caves and granite tors — for example, Labertouche Cave in Victoria, Australia and paleocollapse features.
These include limestone pavements, pot holes, cenotes, caves and gorges.
Activities include hiking, kayaking, walks through glacier caves and snowmobile and dog-sled safari.
A jawbone found in the mainland Jenolan Caves Fossil deposits in limestone caves at Naracoorte, South Australia, dating to the Miocene include specimens of S. laniarius, which were around 15 % larger and 50 % heavier than modern devils.
Motifs painted in numerous caves include depictions of humans, human hands, animal tracks and birds.
Other caves in DeKalb County that were mined for saltpeter include Avant Cave, located near Dowelltown, Indian Grave Point Cave, located in the Dry Creek Valley, and Tempereance Saltpeter Cave, located near Temperance Hall.
These are features which are limited in extent or physically delicate — for example, they include small lenses of sediment, mine tailings, caves and other landforms.
Some of the other caves found within the park include Hastings, Moora, Old river and Mystery caves.
Activities include hiking, kayaking, walks through glacier caves and snow-scooter and dog-sled safaris.
Other area attractions include the more than 1, 000 caves that exist in Marion County, and the famous " Rush " ghost town located in the Buffalo Point area — a turn-of-the-century ghost town from the zinc mining heyday of the area.
These areas can include riparian canyons, caves, and mine shafts.
These dripstone caves include Baumann's Cave, the Unicorn Cave, Hermann's Cave, the Iberg Dripstone Cave and, on the southern edge of the Harz, the Heimkehle.
Exhibits include original flint tools and human remains excavated from the caves.
Other caves include Fried's Cave,
Tourist attractions include natural features such as the Creux du Van, lookout peaks such as the Chasseral, caves such as the Grottes de l ' Orbe, and gorges such as Taubenloch.
The caves may also be known as the Dunhuang Caves, however, this term also include other Buddhist cave sites in the Dunhuang area, such as the Western Thousand Buddha Caves, and the Yulin Caves farther away.
Topographical features within the Phitsanulok Province include the Phetchabun Mountains, the Nan River and several of its tributaries, waterfalls, rapids, swamps, forests, grasslands, caves, a reservoir and an extensive network of canals.
The most recent addition to the Pinnacles National Monument was Clinton's Proclamation 7266 that increased the size of the monument by and to include naturally formed caves.
Other trails include lush wildflower accented views along flat stream beds, trails that bring one into beautiful caves, and trails that involve high vistas of the Pinnacle formations.
Other possible derivations include aux arcs meaning " of the arches " in reference to the dozens of natural bridges formed by erosion and collapsed caves in the Ozark region.
Other attractions include Cocodrilos Park, Roque Nublo ( an 80 m monolith ), Cenobio de Valerón with about 290 caves, Cueva Pintada the most important archaeological park in Canary Islands and the botanical gardens Jardin Canario ( in Tafira Alta ) and Cactualdea ( in La Aldea de San Nicolás ).

caves and paintings
There is evidence of Neolithic and even Paleolithic paintings in caves on Levanzo, and to a lesser extent on Favignana.
" Much of our understanding of prehistoric peoples comes from caves, such as cave paintings made nearly 40, 000 years ago.
Lascaux is the setting of a complex of caves in southwestern France famous for its Paleolithic cave paintings.
A related technique has been used also in ancient and early medieval paintings found in several caves and rock-cut temples of India.
They also point out that caves inhabited by Aborigines have a low proportion of bones and rock paintings of devils, and suggest that this is an indication that it was not a large part of indigenous lifestyle.
The first paintings of France are those that are from prehistoric times, painted in the caves of Lascaux well over 10, 000 years ago.
Artifacts from their settlements are on display in the Ventura County Historical Museum and their paintings are still visible on canyon walls and in caves in the area.
Initially, the age of the paintings had been a contentious issue, since methods like radiocarbon dating can be misled by contaminated samples of older or newer material, and caves and rocky overhangs ( parietal art ) are typically littered with debris from many time periods.
Executed mainly in red and white with the occasional use of green and yellow, the paintings depict the lives and times of the people who lived in the caves, including scenes of childbirth, communal dancing and drinking, religious rites and burials, as well as indigenous animals.
Similar paintings, though in smaller numbers, can be found in nearby caves.
There are rock paintings in caves in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Burma.
In Thailand, caves and scarps along the Thai-Burmese border, in the Petchabun Range of Central Thailand, and overlooking the Mekong River in Nakorn Sawan Province, all contain galleries of rock paintings.
Biscay has been inhabited since the Middle Paleolithic, as attested by the archaeological remains and cave paintings found in its many caves.
These caves were elaborately painted, the cave paintings and architecture served as aids to meditation, as visual representations of the quest for enlightenment, as mnemonic devices, and as teaching tools to inform those illiterate about Buddhist beliefs and stories.
Serra da Capivara National Park is located in the Caatinga of the south-central part of the state, and protects numerous caves with ancient cave paintings.
In World War II, these caves were used to hide large quantities of paintings from the Germans, even including the Nachtwacht.
Dot paintings can be painted on anything though in aboriginal times they used to paint dot pictures on rocks, caves etc.
Rock paintings appear on caves in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, known as Bradshaws.
The entry on the list includes the Mitla ruins along with the Tree of Tule and nearby caves which have paintings and show human habitation for 80, 000 years.
Statues and paintings in these caves date back to the 1st century BC.
Major attractions are spread over 5 caves, which contain statues and paintings.
Cave paintings have been found in the Lascaux caves in France that been suggested to depict sprinting and wrestling in the Upper Paleolithic around 17, 300 years ago.
Nerja has a long history, evidenced by the primitive paintings found in its famous Nerja caves, discovered in 1959.

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