gours
rimstone

Gours: They are another kind of formation which is also very interesting.

He scrambled backward up over the gours, the grooved stone surface scraping at his hands and legs.

Gours may refer to:

Gours is a commune in the Gironde department in southwestern France.

"Dear God in heaven..." The cave was smaller than the one he had just left, with a broad shelf of gours to the left.

"Called 'gours.'

Ushakothi is a wildlife sanctuary harboring elephants, tigers, gours, sambars, black panthers, deer, spotted deer, bears and other animals.

On the mountain Chalet de la Fée (££ 0033 476 802413), tucked away in the beautiful Vallon des Gours.

Burials below the water line were found to be within relatively deep ( 3 feet) rimstone dams.

A cool breeze blew on their faces until they arrived at a chamber filled with rimstone dams.

This chamber contains another perfect rimstone.

The cave has four large chambers with numerous stalactites, stalagmites and rimstone dams.

Just outside the main grotto are rimstone pools in which visitors can wallow in the shallow river as the water rushes past.

He encountered chandeliers, stalactites, soda straws, flowstone, pools of water, rimstone dams and other formations.

The cave is 10-20 meters wide and nearly the same height throughout, with numerous speleothems including stalagmites, flowstone, and rimstone pools.

The next chamber is called Rimstone Chamber because of the rimstone pools which fall away at different levels.

In Missouri, eggs have been found laid singly or attached to the sides of rimstone pools, on silt deposits or on the bottom of small pools.

The permit gives you legal access to Laurel Cave (Summer Months Only), Horn Hollow Caves and the connected Rimstone Cave.

In November 1973, the caverns were registered as a National Natural Landmark as they "feature terraced pedestal-like stalagmites, flowstone, curtains, rimstone, domepits, and waterfalls."

This has been formed by water coming from Link Passage on the west cutting across the line of the Mudwall Passage disappearing into Rimstone Passage to the east.

The survey of the British expedition in 1972 showed that the Wembley Fault extended from a right bank passage on the river, to Wembley Stadium, Mudwall and Rimstone Passages.

The Giant's Hall area consists of several large passageways, up to 60 feet high, but with fewer speleothems - though it does include the largest sheet of flowstone in the northeast and a substantial rimstone pool.

The cave has several recognized speleothems, like cave corals and the dam in a rimstone pool which is 2.5 cm thick, 30 cm high and 22.8 meters long, one of the largest in the state.

The cave exhibits a wide variety of speleothems including; stalactites, stalagmites, columns, flowstone, flowstone colored with iron oxide known as cave bacon, flowstone known as cave draperies, soda straws, popcorn, and rimstone dams.

There is also a swarm of miraculous rimstone dams which have been developed with the underground river by hundreds of millions of years - one is three-staged and the height of the top stage reaches 4 meters, at least 1.5 meters higher than other known ones in China.