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Nullarbor mapping reveals surface signs of deep, hidden cave systems

Mysterious trenches stretching for kilometers across southern Australia's Nullarbor Plain have been revealed as the surface footprints of deep, hidden ancient cave systems.

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Mysterious trenches stretching for kilometers across southern Australia's Nullarbor Plain have been revealed as the surface footprints of deep, hidden ancient cave systems. New research involving Curtin University has found that shallow, sediment-filled trenches formed when underground caves gradually collapsed, eventually reaching the surface.

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