jaskinie: Hellfire Caves

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The Hellfire Caves (also known as the West Wycombe Caves) are a network of man-made chalk and flint caverns which extend 260m underground. They are situated above the village of West Wycombe, at the southern edge of the Chiltern Hills near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, South East England. They were excavated between 1748 and 1752 for Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer (2nd Baronet), founder of the Society of Dilettanti and co-founder of the Hellfire Club, whose meetings were held in the caves. The caves have been operating as a tourist attraction since reopening in 1951.

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Failure susceptibility assessment under dynamic conditions of man-made underground caves in soft rocks. <p>The Apulian region (south-east of Italy) is extensively characterized by the presence of old underground cavities used in the past for the extraction of calcarenite rock, a very soft carbonate rock, and then abandoned over time.&amp;#160;The assessment of the stability conditions for such caves is a very challenging problem, especially where the interaction of cavities with overlying structures or infrastructures is possible. The role of environmental factors in the triggering of cave failure processes has been widely studied in the literature, for instance by Parise &amp; Lollino (201…

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A preliminary analysis of failure mechanisms in karst and man-made underground caves in Southern Italy

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Endless Caverns: An Underground Journey into the Show Caves of Appalachia. Douglas Reichert Powell Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022 ISBN: 9781469669434 232 p. $29.00 (Pbk)

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Endless Caverns: An Underground Journey into the Show Caves of Appalachia by Douglas Reichert Powell (review)

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Endless Caverns: An Underground Journey into the Show Caves of Appalachia by Douglas Reichert Powell