Section 02
The holes in the limestone
The Coves d'Artà and how they were surveyed.
- 01A cavern surveyed in the nineteenth centuryThe Coves d'Artà were mapped by early surveyors and became a set-piece of the Romantic tour, which is how they entered European writing.
- 02Stalagmites Measured Because They Grow SlowlyGrowth rates in these caves are slow enough to be dated, which turns a tourist attraction into a climate record.
- 03Water Cut Most of It, and Is Still CuttingThe Llevant coast's caves are dissolution features in limestone, and the sea-level record is written into where they sit.
Drawn
Why the chambers look the way they do: water enters along the joints, drips, and leaves carbonate behind — above and below at once.
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