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Can you describe how limestone caverns form

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Rainwater picks up carbon dioxide from the air and as it filters through the soil, which turns into a weak acid. This slowly dissolves out the limestone along the joints, bedding planes and fractures, some of which become enlarged enough to form caves.

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