{"id":74992,"date":"2025-11-25T14:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T08:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=74992"},"modified":"2025-11-25T15:24:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:54:26","slug":"postojna-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/postojna-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"Postojna Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Postojna Cave Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers from Poland, the United States, and Slovenia recently worked out exact equations for stalagmite shapes, then checked them on real cave <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">specimens from Postojna Cave in Slovenia.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Postojna Cave<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located in western <\/span><b>Slovenia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a 24 km long cave c<\/span><b>arved out by the Pivka River<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> over millions of years.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s <\/span><b>made of limestone<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and each 1 cm of growth takes around 100 years.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Pivka River enters the Postojna cavern 18 m below its mouth, runs underground, and reappears as a spring in the Planina Plain.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The caves were officially <\/span><b>discovered in the 1800s <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(although graffiti in the caves dates back to as early as the 1200s), and have been open as a <\/span><b>tourist attraction since 1819.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>only karst cave with a railway<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which was <\/span><b>built more than 140 years ago.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cave system <\/span><b>hosts Proteus anguinus \u2014 a blind, colorless, snake-like amphibian <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">about 30 cm long, <\/span><b>with both lungs and gills, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">feeding on snails and worms.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/stalagmites-in-caves-conceal-a-formula-that-nature-has-hidden-for-millions-of-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">EARTH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postojna Cave is located in western Slovenia. 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