Caves
Caves are natural voids in the ground and can form by solution weathering such as in kast caves, or by erosion such as sea caves, or can form at the same time as the rock such as lava tubes. Our geology tours feature caves formed in all these ways. Caves are also important sites for fossil discoveries and provided homes for our ancestors.
The following trips feature caves:
CANARY ISLANDS
Volcanic Island Hopping - visits the Caños de Fuego lava tube on La Palma.
England &Wales
Jurassic Coast & the Complete Geological Timescale - visits Gough Cave in Cheddar Gorge. The cave is the discovery site of Britain's oldest complete human skeleton: Cheddar Man, about 9,100 years old.
Germany
Volcanoes & Famous Fossil Sites - visits the Laichingen Pothole cave in the Swabian Alb Geopark and the the Caves and Ice Age Art World Heritage Site, where we visit three different caves. The first cave, Geissenklösterle, is the discovery site of the world's oldest musical instrument, flutes made from bird and mammoth bones. This is followed by Sirgenstein Cave, which was home to both Neanderthals and modern humans. After the cave we also visit the nearby Hohle Fels Cave where more Ice Age sculpture and musical instruments have been found.
OMAN
Ocean Crust and Mountains of Mantle - visits the Al Hoota cave, the first and only show-cave in Arabia.
Scotland
The Birth of Geology - visits Fingal's Cave on the Isle of Staffa. This is a sea cave carved in to basaltic cooling columns.
South Africa
From Table Mountain to the City of Gold- visits Kango Caves, Sterkfontein Caves in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site and Sudwala Caves
Wales
Fforest Fawr Geopark & Blaenavon WHS Day Tour - Porth y Ogof Cave is visited on the Fforest Fawr Geopark trip.
Geissenklösterle Cave in the'Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura' World Heritage Site, Germany, is the discovery site of the world's oldest musical instrument, flutes made from bird and mammoth bones.
A cave formation which resembles a lion inside Al Hoota Cave,Oman
Fingal's Cave, on the Isle of Staffa, Scotland
