Cave popcorn at the Snowball Palace in Grand Canyon Caverns
Location
Peach Springs, Arizona, United States
Depth
210ft[1]
Length
2406ft
Elevation
5500ft
Discovery
1927
Geology
Limestone
Difficulty
low-Medium
Website
gccaverns.com
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The Grand Canyon Caverns (Havasupai: Ŧathiil Ñwaʼa or Ŧathiil Ñhaʼa,[2]35°31′44″N113°13′54″W / 35.52889°N 113.23167°W / 35.52889; -113.23167), located just a few miles east of Peach Springs, Arizona, lie 210 feet (64 m) below ground level. They are among the largest dry caverns in the United States. Dry caverns comprise only 3% of caverns in the world. Because of the lack of water, stalagmites and stalactites are rare in the caverns.
During the Mississippian Period, 345 million years ago, the southwestern United States was covered by ocean. Skeletons of sea life settling to the depths, created a mud with a high percentage of calcium. This eventually hardened into the limestone bedrock seen in the caverns today. Over millions of years, the bedrock was pushed up to over 5,000 feet (1,500 m) above sea level.
Approximately 35 million years ago, rainfall flowed into the rock, and eroded passages that led to the Colorado River and what is now the Grand Canyon. Millions of years later, the evaporating water left calcium deposits on the walls and floors, creating the formations that can be viewed today.
^Journal of Cave and Karst Studies,March 2021
Volume 83, Number 1
ISSN 1090-6924
A Publication of the National
Speleological Society
^Hinton, Leanne (1984). A dictionary of the Havasupai language.[full citation needed]
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