Some Mystery Geology for Your Saturday!

I’ll have photos with fantastic fall colors and really delicious folds in garnet mica schist for ye soon…ish. In the meantime, here’s a bit of a photo I’ve had saved up to show ye! I’m going to present anonymous crops of it first, because I want to give you a chance to see if you can puzzle out what it is. Because it’s a fairly famous landmark, I’m only going to say it’s sandstone, it’s in a European country, and the photo these bits are from is on Wikimedia Commons, available under a Creative Commons license. Why not the whole picture? Because that would give it away instantly! I mean, all you’d have to do is Google it (don’t Google it, that takes all the fun out of the game).

Now: can you tell me what made the cave, and the marks in the ceiling?

Image shows a portion of a sandstone cave, looking out from within towards a temperate forest. The cave has lots of scalloped edges, especially in the roof.
Mystery geology I

Here’s a close-up of the ceiling:

Crop of the cave ceiling, showing a rib-like texture of ridges and lots of scalloped curves hollowed out of it.
Mystery geology II

I’ll reveal the full picture, the photographer, and the answer tomorrow. It is so delicious!

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Some Mystery Geology for Your Saturday!
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6 thoughts on “Some Mystery Geology for Your Saturday!

  1. rq
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    I think that’s the only valid answer, considering I’m having trouble finding information on the striations (I’m probably searching wrong). Scratches left by Cthulhu it is.

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