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Related: About this forumThis is a major discovery': Explorers find massive ice-age cavern beneath Montreal
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-underground-passage-1.4428833"SNIP.....
Explorers have just discovered a new underground passage, complete with stalactites and a lake, all buried beneath the city of Montreal and they don't know where it ends yet.
Until a couple of months ago, no one had ever set foot inside.
CBC crews were among the first people who had the chance to explore the cathedral-like chamber, which was formed more than 15,000 years ago during the ice age.
Cavers Luc Le Blanc and his friend Daniel Caron couldnt believe their eyes when they knocked through limestone and discovered this massive chamber beneath Montreal. (Submitted by Société québécoise de spéléologie)
The spectacular find is connected to Montreal's Saint-Léonard Cavern, which lies underneath Parc Pie XII, not far from Highway 40.
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applegrove
Dec 2017
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I wonder if they will do tours in it some day. I could certainly go for a raft paddle.
applegrove
Dec 2017
#4
You'd be like the christians in the catacombs. Actually the world is changing
applegrove
Dec 2017
#6
shenmue
(38,538 posts)1. Wow
Sneederbunk
(15,392 posts)2. Sacre bleu!
AllaN01Bear
(23,352 posts)3. ohm myyyyyy!!
applegrove
(123,624 posts)4. I wonder if they will do tours in it some day. I could certainly go for a raft paddle.
Laffy Kat
(16,531 posts)5. Can we move in? nt
applegrove
(123,624 posts)6. You'd be like the christians in the catacombs. Actually the world is changing
rapidly and we need americans to lead the way as usual, so you are just going to have stay and fight an then share your wisdom.
Laffy Kat
(16,531 posts)7. Darn. OK. nt
NBachers
(18,197 posts)8. I'm sure there's a geologic explanation, but those walls look quite flat and evenly-spaced.
It looks carved-out to me.
eppur_se_muova
(37,671 posts)9. Mammoth Cave is a lot like that ...
stalactites and stalagmites in only a small portion of the cave, where groundwater percolates through from above. The rest of it looks like a long-abandoned subway tunnel. Huge, but not bery scenic.