Cave explorers have traversed what's now the deepest known cave in Australia.
, in Tasmania's Niggly-Growling Swallet cave system within the Junee-Florentine karst area.With a descent that lasted 14 hours and took many months to prepare for,But it holds a different kind of fascination for researchers such as myself, who study the interaction between groundwater and rocks .
Unlike much harder igneous rocks , calcareous rocks dissolve on contact with water that is naturally acidic.
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