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Cave erosion

mrodoc

Well-known member
Is it my imagination or are we seeing increasing numbers of reports of cave instability. Is this because we have been visiting caves long enough to witness natural change or are we creating some of the erosion ourselves? Discuss.
 
We do seem to have had a lot of water about the place recently.  See the various posts on "rainfall in the Dales," etc.  Could this have something to do with it?
 
Alternative possibilities:

a) we are better at publicising instabilities
b) we are more worried about instabilities

(no idea what the actual reason is!)
 
On going process. Caves naturally reach a point of equilibrium due to natural collapse over thousands of years. Human traffic accelerates the process. Digging and poking about adds to that. That is unless a clumsy sod kicks a rock down and breaks your arm or crushes yer fingies.
 
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