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Patagonian Cave

The artistry of water and time created the entrance to this limestone cave in Patagonia, Chile. Limestone is a soluble rock, and over hundreds of thousands of years, the slow movement of water can work like a chisel. Geologists call these structures solutional caves.

Photograph by Carsten Peter