Natural Caves

Mother Nature is a beautiful artist and she crafts the world beneath the world as a master. Curves and flows and hollows and chasms, the endless wonder beckons to the adventurer. Spelunking we go!

Natural Cave Structures

  • cave, cavern, chasm, channel, tunnel, hole, hollow,
  • archway, passage, chimney, drop, tube,
  • erosion cave, corrasional cave,
  • solutional cave, karst cave, spongework cave,
  • glacial cave,
  • littoral cave,
  • sea cave, anchialine cave,
  • primary cave,
  • lava tube,
  • pit cave, pothole, vertical shaft cave,
  • fault, rift, fracture cave, angular network cave, fissure,
  • talus cave, rubble pile, rockfall,
  • drainage cave, anastomotic cave,
  • branchwork cave, spongework cave,
  • pool, lake, river, geyser, fountain, spout, confluence
  • vent, chute,
  • cavern, ramiform cave,
  • crevasse, crack, split, fault, rift,
  • drop, abyss, chasm,
  • stalactite, stalagmite, soda straw, column,
  • incline, slope, descent, down grade, ascent, declivity, acclivity, gradient, rise, dip, grade, flow,
  • plane, level,
  • natural stair,
  • spiral, stilt, slant, turn, curve, flip, roll,
  • branch, branch passage, divergence, break, fork, detour, split, severance, convergence,
  • narrowing, dwindling passage,
  • crawl space,
  • cave-in, collapse,  slide, slump,
  • braided stream, dendritic stream,
  • sinkhole,

Cave Descriptors

  • wide, vacuous, immense, expansive,
  • foreboding, confining, claustrophobic, pressing, closing, weighty, heavy, cramped, pressing,
  • empty, forlorn, lonely, distant, lost, forgotten,
  • narrow, slight,
  • conical, spherical, square,
  • broken, shattered, scattered,
  • web-like, networked,
  • worn, buffeted by wind (time, elements, etc.), eroded, carved, chiseled, etched, furrowed,
  • old, ancient, primordial,
  • dark, pitch black, deep dark,
  • silent, still, dead, cold, barren, desolate,
  • scary, frightening, terrible,
  • like a coffin, wasteland,
  • rocky,

Cave Stuff

  • debris, rock, dust, particles, sand, stone, scree, rubble,
  • moisture, seepage,
  • lichen, moss, growth, grasses, mushroom, fibre, bacteria,
  • slime, muck, ooze,
  • striations, strata, layers,
  • cave in, collapse, slump, slide,
  • deposits, sediment,
  • pit, hole, abyss,
  • mud hole, quicksand, sinkhole,
  • cankered earth,
  • salt, chalk, limestone, sandstone, granite,
  • monsters, creatures, beasts, swarms, insects, vermin, rodents, bats, mice, rats, snakes, bloodthirsty sightless things,
  • paintings, carvings, cairns, magic messages, runes, writing, script, hieroglyphs, hand print,
  • steam, fog, mist, particulate, precipitation, silicate dust, murk, cloud,
  • smoke, smog, dust, haze, poison cloud, fumes, brume, smell, stink, stench,
  • wisp, hint, trace, fleeting, streak,
  • elements, minerals,
  • gems,
  • light or darkness,
    • glow from torch,
    • crack, beam of sunlight,
    • radiance from luminescent moss, lichen, creatures,
  • evidence of civilization
    • footprints, garbage,
    • arrowheads, firepit rings,
  • bones, skulls, fragments,

Natural Cave Links and Resources

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