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Photograph - J.E. Smith

The Main Streamway in Peak Cavern, Castleton, Derbyshire - a huge phreatic tube almost perfectly cylindrical in shape.  Note the bedding joint half way up the walls around which the solution tube initially formed.

The stream now flows in the bottom of the tube and lower down the stream is beginning to carve a trough in the bottom of the tube.


Photograph - Keith Edwards

The Long Crawl in Dan Yr Ogof, South Wales - a body-sized phreatic tube.  Again the bedding joint half way up the walls can be clearly seen.
 

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