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caving the sport of climbing in and exploring caves caving [′kāv·iŋ] (mining engineering) A mining procedure, used when the surface is expendable, in which the ore body is undercut and allowed to fall, breaking into small pieces that are recovered by passages (drifts) driven for that purpose; sublevel caving, block caving, and top slicing are examples. (petroleum engineering) Collapsing of the walls of a wellbore. Also known as sloughing. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Below left, exhibits at the cavers are designed to resemble the cave interior itself. Furthermore, whereas the obsession with thinness is seen as "normal" for a woman, a man's preoccupation with his body is seen as an abnormal identification with the feminine (McVittie, Cavers, & Hepworth, 2005). For instance, some of the walls in New Mexico's Lechuguilla Cave are coated with guarly bumps of various sizes, a type of formation that cavers have nicknamed popcorn. |
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