This section is starting to discuss features you find in caves by general area within the cave.

• Twilight Zone (Cave Entrance)
  • Colouration due to cyanobacteria and algae
  • Wind effects
  • Crayback effects on stalagmites
  • Phototropic coralloids
  • Reflective dots
  • Entrance dust
  • Sharks Teeth Stalactites
  • Temperature effects e.g. ice
• Dark Zone (Spelean)

  This is mostly covered by Hill and Forti, and here are some additional comments:

  • Reflective crystals in caves
  • Temperature effects on speleothems deep in caves
  • High humidity leads to surface film effects
  • Decorative silt deposits
  • Stars (spheroidal agregates)
• Sub-aqueous deposits
  • Physics and chemistry of tower coral
  • Effect of submersion on helictite recrystallisation
• Soil Deposits
  • Phosphates
  • Nitrates
• Aerosols
  • Calcite particles
  • Organics