Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2021 June 10

= June 10 =

The world's largest aeolian cave?
What is the largest and longest eolian cave in the world, that is, formed by the wind-born sediments? --Vyacheslav84 (talk) 15:41, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * What's an example of such a cave? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 16:41, 10 June 2021 (UTC)


 * the link you provided sends us to a dab page. My guess is that you want to know about Eolianite caves. If I am wrong please correct this. MarnetteD&#124;Talk 17:34, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Cave mentions aeolian caves as Vyacheslav described them, but does not give any examples. The reference given there has little more but says "These [aeolian caves] are common in the arid regions of the American Southwest." --Wrongfilter (talk) 17:48, 10 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Aeolian processes "also spelled eolian, pertain to wind activity in the study of geology..."
 * "Eolian caves are chambers scoured by wind action. They are common in desert areas where they are formed in massive sandstone cliffs. Wind sweeping around such a cavity erodes the walls, floor, and ceiling, resulting in a bottle-shaped chamber usually of greater diameter than the entrance. Eolian caves are rarely longer than a few tens of metres". britannica.com - Eolian cave
 * Actual examples remain elusive. Alansplodge (talk) 10:59, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Which is to say while there is a largest (just as there must be a largest of just about anything), there does not appear to be anyone that has catalogued such caves sufficiently to determine which cave that is. -- Jayron 32 14:01, 11 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Certainly not the largest, but here's an example: Hole-in-the-Rock (Papago Park) 2603:6081:1C00:1187:A058:A9C7:56CB:C71F (talk) 20:43, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Perhaps we need a Category:aeolian caves? Alansplodge (talk) 10:49, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, I want the largest and longest of these caves in the world. --Vyacheslav84 (talk) 11:24, 12 June 2021 (UTC)