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OCR: COARSE HORIZONTALLY STRATIFIED LIMESTONE CONGLOMERATE SANDSTONE TYPICAL CAVE SYSTEM Sink holes (dolines or former swallets] draining percolation Collapsed sink hole on site of Stream flowing off cover of water into the limestone former large cavern in old SHALES impermeable rocks onto "fossil" cave sivallet (stream sink] Pothole into Abandoned early-phase early passage near-surface passage Stalactites and stalagmites growing in passages no longer active LIMESTONE Intermediate-level passages formed as level of resurgences 7stream risings or springs) in the main Valley is lowered through erosional incision Passages in horizontally joints bedded limestone with (vertical) IMPERVIOUS SLATE widely spaced joints generally ?? follow an alternating Bedding planes Lowest, water-filled passage horizontal and vertical proile. (horizontal] [sump] still in totally Present-day submerged (phreatic) zone resurgence (stream A stream flowing through rising or spring! these is said to be vadose. near foot of valley side