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| Like Wind Cave, Jewel Cave has rugged, irregular-shaped passages typical of caverns formed by dissolution along complex fracture systems below the water table. This is in contrast to the long, narrow, sinuous, or canyon-like shaped passages in flat-lying strata in caverns like much of the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky where flowing water in underground streams at or above the water table dominate the erosion processes forming the cavern passages. |
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