The Virtual Cave

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About The Virtual Cave

Since the mid-90s The Virtual Cave has provided an online reference on caves & cave formations.

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Cave Types

Caves are formed through a number of different processes and can take many different forms. Click on the links below to see the variety of the underground world.

Solutional Caves

These are the caves most people are familiar with. Dissolved out of limestone or other carbonate rocks by acidic water, they can contain an astounding variety of speleothems, such as stalactites and stalagmites, and much, much more.

Sea Caves

Carved by the power of oceans, sea caves may be gentle or treacherous to explore. Found along coasts throughout the world, they can get surprisingly large.

Lava Tubes

Caves can also be formed from flowing lava, and are called lava tubes when they do. There are many fascinating things to be found inside.

Erosional and Glacier Caves

Caves may be eroded in a variety of rocks: granite, sandstone, even ice, by the power of water and wind-borne particles. Or water may simply melt passages through ice.

Cave Features

Cave Biology

Fossils

Karst

Virtual Cave Index:

Solutional Caves