Left Hand Tunnel 2002-01-04

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Ibid. Close up of gap between hanging pool ppt and shelfstone. Minor upward growth of pool ppt. Helmet strap for scale.

Ibid. Nice view of peeling shelfstone.

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Ibid. Close up of small piece hanging from ceiling. It does not touch the bottom or sides.

Ibid. Close up of layers in shelfstone.

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Ibid. Close up of layers in shelfstone and pendant pool ppt, showing the weak connection between the knobby pool ppt layer and the shelfstone plates.

Ibid. Close up of hanging pieces of shelfstone partly cemented into floor pool ppt.

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Ibid. Dale Pate making sketch of pool passage. Light under his feet is the covered part of the paleo-pool imaged above.

Ibid. Close up of shelfstone with underlying pool ppt and side of pool with pool ppt.

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Ibid. Closer photos of shelf, broken in center, intact to right. Note gap between shelf and underlying pool ppt.

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Ibid. Large paleopool area details. Lily pad surrounded by knobby pool ppt.

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Ibid. Climbing out of end of large pool toward second pool that still has water in it. Note edge of paleopool and transition to flowstone.

Ibid. Dead bat.

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Ibid. Wall near small paleopool with broken shelfstone. Needles growing from wall.

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Ibid. View of broken shelfstone cemented to bottom of pool with bat bones for scale.

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Left Hand Tunnel, paleo-pool with broken shelfstone near DTB5. The shelfstone is layers, the pool ppt extends down from shelfstone but with a gap. This tends to flake off, three large yellow plates are in place. Thinner whiter plates are broken cave rafts that are not in place. Lens cap = 3.0 cm.