Talk:Wyandotte Caves

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http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx?type=turn&entity=HistSciTech001201970025&isize=text

Serious problems with information in this article.
This article claims that Wyandotte Cave is the largest cave in Indiana, with 25 miles of passage.

The July 7, 2009 Edition of the "USA Longest Caves" list, which is compiled by Bob Gulden, gives a completely different story. This highly respected source, lists Wyandotte Cave as #76 in the United States, with a mapped length of 9.200 miles.

It is surpassed (in Indiana) by Sullivan Cave with 9.632 miles of surveyed cave, Blue Spring Cave with 20.810 miles of surveyed cave, the Lost River Cave System with 21.009 miles of surveyed cave, and Binkleys Cave (Indiana's longest) with 22.798 miles of surveyed cave.

This needs to be corrected in the article.

Wyandotte Cave is a huge cave with very large passages. If you consider volume, it might have some claim to Indiana's "largest" cave. But, it is not 25 miles long and it is not Indiana's longest cave.

170.141.109.39 (talk) 20:10, 7 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Feel free to fix or correct anything. :) Be bold!. &mdash;Charles Edward (Talk 22:34, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Effects of temperature on cave formation
I did some research in order to address a cite needed tag I added to this article a while ago. I have ended up removing the statement. See this diff.

There is some evidence that cold water accelerates the process as it dissolves more carbon dioxide than warmer water. However, cave formation is a complex process and temperature is just one of many factors. Other factors counteract the effect of temperature, and in reality caves form faster in warmer climates because of them. See, pg 7.

I've left the "icy-cold" descriptor of the water, because it probably did have some effect, but that effect is overstated by asserting that cold water dissolves limestone "much faster" than warm water. ~  ONUnicorn (Talk problem solving 23:57, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Reference #7
I've somewhat crudely marked with Bad linked references and dead link that the Questia link is not going anywhere helpful. It seems to be a now shuttered research database, but I have no idea what the intended citation was. Ullpianissimo – (talk) 00:05, 30 March 2021 (UTC)