Moaning Cavern, the Glossary
Moaning Caverns is a solutional cave located in the Calaveras County, California, near Vallecito, California in the heart of the state's Gold Country.[1]
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10 relations: Arlington Springs Man, Calaveras County, California, Calaveras Skull, Caving, Gold Country, Marble, Solutional cave, Speleothem, Statue of Liberty, Vallecito, California.
- Caves of California
- Oldest human remains in the Americas
Arlington Springs Man
Arlington Springs Man was an ancient Paleoindian Indigenous American, most likely a man, whose remains were found in 1959 on Santa Rosa Island, one of the Channel Islands located off the coast of Southern California. Moaning Cavern and Arlington Springs Man are Oldest human remains in the Americas.
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Calaveras County, California
Calaveras County, officially the County of Calaveras, is a county in both the Gold Country and High Sierra regions of the U.S. state of California.
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Calaveras Skull
The Calaveras Skull (also known as the Pliocene Skull) was a human skull found in 1866 by miners in Calaveras County, California, which was presented as evidence that humans were in North America as early as during the Pliocene Epoch (at least 2 million years ago), and which was used to support the idea the humans, mastodons, and mammoths had coexisted.
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Caving
Caving, also known as spelunking (United States and Canada) and potholing (United Kingdom and Ireland), is the recreational pastime of exploring wild cave systems (as distinguished from show caves).
Gold Country
The Gold Country (also known as Mother Lode Country) is a historic region in the northern portion of the U.S. state of California, that is primarily on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada.
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Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock consisting of carbonate minerals (most commonly calcite (CaCO3) or dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2)) that have crystallized under the influence of heat and pressure.
Solutional cave
A solutional cave, solution cave, or karst cave is a cave usually formed in the soluble rock limestone.
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Speleothem
A speleothem is a geological formation by mineral deposits that accumulate over time in natural caves.
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Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, within New York City.
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Vallecito, California
Vallecito (Spanish for "Little Valley") is a census-designated place (CDP) in Calaveras County, California, United States.
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See also
Caves of California
- Black Chasm Cave
- Boyden Cavern
- Burro Flats site
- California Caverns
- Catacombs Cave
- Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park
- Crystal Cave (Sequoia National Park)
- Hall City Cave
- Infernal Caverns
- Lake Shasta Caverns
- Lava Beds National Monument
- Mercer Caverns
- Merrill Cave
- Mitchell Caverns
- Moaning Cavern
- Mud Caves
- Mushpot Cave
- Pluto's Cave
- Providence Mountains State Recreation Area
- Sunny Jim's Sea Cave
- Ursa Minor (cave)
- Valentine Cave
Oldest human remains in the Americas
- Ancient Beringian
- Angeles Mesa skeletons
- Anzick site
- Anzick-1
- Arlington Springs Man
- Brooks Falls
- Buhl Woman
- Eve of Naharon
- Grimes Point
- Kennewick Man
- La Brea Woman
- La Jolla complex
- Lansing Man
- Leanderthal Lady
- Lucy Islands
- Luzia Woman
- Marmes Rockshelter
- Minnesota Woman
- Moaning Cavern
- Naia (skeleton)
- On Your Knees Cave
- Paiján culture
- Paisley Caves
- Peñon woman
- Piedra Museo
- Serra da Capivara National Park
- Spirit Cave mummy
- Tepexpan man
- Tlapacoya (archeological site)
- Trail Creek Caves
- Tuqan Man
- Upward Sun River site