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| Jerry Pillarelli | profile | all galleries >> Travel and Nature; Sites by State >> US Travel; by Trip, by State >> Kentucky >> Mammoth Cave National Park (2012) | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 Mammoth Cave Historic Entrance |
 Nitrate Mine Works area in Mammoth Cave |
 The Tower leading up to Mammoth Dome |
 The Giant’s Coffin in Mammoth Cave |
 “Columns” of the Ruins of Karnack under the Mammoth Dome |
 Mineral formation in the area under the Mammoth Dome |
 The Rotunda along the trail on the Historic Tour |
 A bat hanging from a wall in Mammoth Cave |
 Exiting Mammoth Cave at the Historic Entrance |
 A Mammoth Cave Fan waits for her tour to begin |
 Entering the Carmichael Entrance for the four mile-four hour Grand Avenue Tour |
 National Park Ranger leading the Grand Avenue Tour |
 Gypsum seeping through limestone cracks over thousands of years create flower like petal formations on the cave’s ceiling |
 Mineral deposits on the ceiling of the Snowball Room, 267 feet below the surface |
 A “Snowball” mineral deposit on the ceiling of the Snowball Room |
 “Hoofland’s Tonic” cave drawing from 1869 in the Snowball Room |
 One of the wider corridors in Mammoth Cave |
 Looking up above the trail in Mammoth Cave |
 Mammoth Cave formations created by flowing water |
 Mammoth Cave formations created by flowing water |
 Gypsum crystal formation on a Mammoth Cave wall |
 Explorer’s lantern in Mammoth Cave |
 Mennonite Mammoth Cave Fans |
 One of the many steep climbs on the Grand Avenue tour in Mammoth Cave |
 Ceiling above the Frozen Niagara formation in Mammoth Cave |
 Overhang above the Frozen Niagara formation in Mammoth Cave |
 Area behind the Frozen Niagara formation in Mammoth Cave |
 Area behind the Frozen Niagara formation in Mammoth Cave |
 Looking straight up at the dome above the Frozen Niagara formation in Mammoth Cave |
 Area near the Frozen Niagara formation in Mammoth Cave |
 Large stalagmite near the Frozen Niagara formation in Mammoth Cave |
 The ceiling near the Frozen Niagara formation in Mammoth Cave |
 The Frozen Niagara formation in Mammoth Cave |
 Looking up into the Moonlight Dome near the Frozen Niagara formation in Mammoth Cave |
 A large calcite formation in Mammoth Cave |
 Stalactites in a small grotto near the Frozen Niagara formation in Mammoth Cave |
 Stalactites and stalagmites near the Frozen Niagara formation in Mammoth Cave |
 Stalactites near the Frozen Niagara formation in Mammoth Cave |
 Stalactites and stalagmites near the Frozen Niagara formation in Mammoth Cave |
 Stalactites near the Frozen Niagara formation in Mammoth Cave |
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