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Photo: Patagonia Cave |
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Photograph by Carsten Peters
A cautious caver descends a heavily eroded limestone wall on Madre de Dios Island in Chilean Patagonia. The island, located off the cold, wet coast of southern Chile, is made up of coral limestone laid down near the Equator some 300 million years ago and later thrust to the surface by tectonic forces.
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