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Chauvet caves are about 32,000 years old, along with a few small, realistic sculptures of women and animals from the same period.
I would love to see Google maps inside some of these caves.
What this means is that if you could shrink the Earth to the size of a billiard ball, if you could take planet Earth, with all its mountain tops and caves and rainforests, astronauts and uncontacted tribes and chimpanzees, voodoo dolls, fireflies, chocolate, sea creatures making love in the deep blue sea, you just shrink that to the size of a billiard ball, it would be as smooth as a billiard ball, presumably a billiard ball with a slight bulge around the middle.
We've been talking, I guess, about fires and caves and saber-toothed tigers.
When you think of a cave, most of you think of a tunnel going through solid rock, and in fact, that's how most caves are.
Around this half of the country, most of your caves are made of limestone.
Back where I'm from, most of our caves are made of lava rock, because we have a lot of volcanoes out there.
But the caves I want to share with you today are made completely of ice, specifically glacier ice that's formed in the side of the tallest mountain in the state of Oregon, called Mount Hood.
Now these days, with so many people hiking around, it's pretty hard to find a new cave, so you can imagine how excited we were to find three new caves within sight of Oregon's largest city and realize that they had never been explored or mapped before.
The name of the glacier these caves are formed in is the Sandy Glacier.
Now each year, as new snow lands on the glacier, it melts in the summer sun, and it forms little rivers of water on the flow along the ice, and they start to melt and bore their way down through the glacier, forming big networks of caves, sometimes going all the way down to the underlying bedrock.
Now the crazy thing about glacier caves is that each year, new tunnels form.
But the weirdest thing about glacier caves is that the entire cave is moving, because it's formed inside a block of ice the size of a small city that's slowly sliding down the mountain.
He and I have both been exploring caves a long time and we've been climbing mountains a long time, but neither one of us had ever really explored a glacier cave before.
Back in 2011, Brent saw a YouTube video of a couple of hikers that stumbled across the entrance to one of these caves.
In fact, the more I mapped and studied caves, the more useful I found all that math that I originally hated in school to be.
Now later this summer, as more snow melted off the glacier, we found more caves, and we realized they were all connected.
So besides really cool ice, what else is inside these caves?
As these caves form and melt their way up into the ice, they make these artifacts rain down from the ceiling and fall onto the cave floor, where we end up finding them.
Every year, new caves get discovered that no one has ever been in before.
The Germans were embedded in this mountain hillside, rocky hillside, in impregnable caves, and three allied battalions had been pounding away at it for six months, and they were stalemated.
Some were left in caves, others in trees or on mountaintops.
However, since systematic cave exploration started about one century ago, we know actually that caves exist in every continent of the world.
And this estimation is made without considering other types of caves, like, for example, inside glaciers or even volcanic caves, which are not karstic, but are formed by lava flows.
Despite this, in the last 10 years, speleologists from Italy, Slovakia, Czech Republic, and, of course, Venezuela and Brazil, have explored several caves in this area.
And the caves represent, really, a snapshot of the past.
The time needed for their formation could be as long as 50 or even 100 million years, which makes them possibly the oldest caves that we can explore on earth.
Europe is one of the first places that we start to see graphic marks regularly appearing in caves, rock shelters and even a few surviving open-air sites.
We did it before, 10,000 years ago, when we came out of our caves.
It turns out that caves are repositories of amazing life-forms, species that we never knew existed before.
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