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June 10

The world's largest aeolian cave?

What is the largest and longest eolian cave in the world, that is, formed by the wind-born sediments? --Vyacheslav84 (talk) 15:41, 10 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What's an example of such a cave? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:41, 10 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Vyacheslav84 the link you provided sends us to a dab page. My guess is that you want to know about Eolianite caves. If I am wrong please correct this. MarnetteD|Talk 17:34, 10 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Cave#Corrasional_or_erosional mentions aeolian caves as Vyacheslav described them, but does not give any examples. The reference given there has little more but says "These [aeolian caves] are common in the arid regions of the American Southwest." --Wrongfilter (talk) 17:48, 10 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Aeolian processes "also spelled eolian, pertain to wind activity in the study of geology..."

"Eolian caves are chambers scoured by wind action. They are common in desert areas where they are formed in massive sandstone cliffs. Wind sweeping around such a cavity erodes the walls, floor, and ceiling, resulting in a bottle-shaped chamber usually of greater diameter than the entrance. Eolian caves are rarely longer than a few tens of metres". britannica.com - Eolian cave

Actual examples remain elusive. Alansplodge (talk) 10:59, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Which is to say while there is a largest (just as there must be a largest of just about anything), there does not appear to be anyone that has catalogued such caves sufficiently to determine which cave that is. --Jayron 32 14:01, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly not the largest, but here's an example: Hole-in-the-Rock (Papago Park) 2603:6081:1C00:1187:A058:A9C7:56CB:C71F (talk) 20:43, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps we need a Category:aeolian caves? Alansplodge (talk) 10:49, 12 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I want the largest and longest of these caves in the world. --Vyacheslav84 (talk) 11:24, 12 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]