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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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| Not that I'm big fan of the grisly, but ``The Descent,'' about six female spelunkers, falls into the time-honored tradition of using atmosphere to create the terror. Ropes installed by spelunkers in Lechuguilla Cave are being slowly consumed by fungi, she notes. Acute histoplasmosis in spelunkers returning from Mato Grosso, Peru. |
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