Why are Seashells Found in Caves?

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Hello my name is Laszlo and we are going in this matteous cave which is under the Buda hills and I will teaching you about caving. This one is bar best and we call it bar desk because the top of the stone is at your chest and it is very straight so it looks like a bar desk but there is no service today, very sorry. Here is a sea shell and it was about almost 40 million years ago so there was a sea here and it is about a 40 million year old sea shell. Maybe it is older and maybe it is younger but it is about 40 million years. Some many years ago there was a big sea and all the animals living in it sooner or later died so the dead ones were sinking down on the bottom of the sea so much later when the sea disappeared this huge about of animal hardened and became limestone and as it was moved because of the earth and the hole was rising up and it was broken so through the cracks the water dissolved it and that is why we can see some very old sea shells and other creatures here. If you want to know more about this you have to be a geologist. If you want to be a geologist you have to go to a university and as you learn it you will come here and you will learn much more about it.

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