Were These Caves Licked into Place?
Some of the Earth’s hardest features have been shaped by soft animal bodies. The post Were These Caves Licked into Place? appeared first on Nautilus.
When an elephant needs salt, it will remove mountains to get it. And on the flanks of Mount Elgon—a dormant volcano straddling the border between Kenya and Uganda—that is exactly what generations of elephants did, carving ballroom-sized caves in its side as lasting evidence of their saline cravings. As far as rocks go, the volcanic sediments gouged by their tusks were relatively soft, but solid enough to form the foundation of the mountain.
