- published: 19 Feb 2010
- views: 17259892
A cave or cavern is a natural underground space large enough for a human to enter. The term applies to natural cavities some part of which is in total darkness. The word cave also refers to smaller spaces like rock shelters, sea caves, and grottos.
Speleology is the science of exploration and study of all aspects of caves and the environment which surrounds the caves. Exploring a cave for recreation or science may be called caving, potholing, or, in Canada and the United States, spelunking (see caving).
The formation and development of caves is known as speleogenesis. Caves are formed by various geologic processes. These may involve a combination of chemical processes, erosion from water, tectonic forces, microorganisms, pressure, atmospheric influences, and even digging.
Most caves are formed in limestone by dissolution.
Solutional caves are the most frequently occurring caves and such caves form in rock that is soluble, such as limestone, but can also form in other rocks, including chalk, dolomite, marble, salt, and gypsum. Rock is dissolved by natural acid in groundwater that seeps through bedding-planes, faults, joints and so on. Over geological epochs cracks expand to become caves or cave systems.
Actors: Blair Barnette (producer), Anthony Mark Streeter (actor), Simon Lee Phillips (actor), Daz Spencer-Lovesey (writer), Daz Spencer-Lovesey (editor), Daz Spencer-Lovesey (writer), Daz Spencer-Lovesey (producer), Daz Spencer-Lovesey (producer), Daz Spencer-Lovesey (director), Michelle Crane (actress), Rowan Scarborough (actress), Cathy Lang (costume designer), Andy Done Johnson (actor), Frank Ryan (actor), Matt Wells (producer),
Plot: The film center's around the trials and tribulations of two back-packing friends as they take a unwilling journey down the rivers and into the heart and history of the industrial revolution. With all the violence, ferocity and decadence of a mis-spent youth the boys will learn a life lesson or two before they reach the other side.
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Thriller,Actors: Angus MacInnes (actor), Corin Redgrave (actor), Donald Sumpter (actor), Lee Montague (actor), Robert Pugh (actor), Wayne Docksey (actor), Dougray Scott (actor), Adolf Hitler (actor), Tom Hollander (actor), Mick Jagger (actor), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (actor), Edward Hardwicke (actor), Josef Goebbels (actor), Kate Winslet (actress), Saffron Burrows (actress),
Plot: During the Second World War, a team of genius is put together near to London to study means of breaking the German code used in the communication. Tom Jericho broke this code in the past and had a break-down. Now his passion Claire Romilly is missing and the British counter-espionage system believes she is a German spy. Tom becomes closer the Claire's best girl-friend Hester Wallace and together they try to resolve the mystery of the disappearance of Claire in an war environment surrounded by suspicion and stress.
Keywords: 1940s, based-on-book, based-on-novel, battle-of-the-atlantic, big-ben-london, bombing, breasts, british-convoy, buried-body, camera-shot-of-feetActors: Alfred Molina (actor), Alun Armstrong (actor), David Calder (actor), Arthur Howard (actor), Bryan Pringle (actor), Michael Palin (actor), Michael Palin (writer), Georges Delerue (composer), Roger Lloyd-Pack (actor), Michael Palin (writer), Penny Eyles (miscellaneous crew), Wensley Pithey (actor), Jane Trower (miscellaneous crew), Susan d'Arcy (miscellaneous crew), Connie Booth (actress),
Plot: Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline and her companion Elinor, the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of Elinor, and both the women are drawn to him. Back at Oxford he is nevertheless taken aback when they arrive unannounced. Women are not allowed in the College grounds, let alone the rooms. Indeed any liaison, however innocent, is frowned on by the upstanding Fellows.
Keywords: 1860s, 19th-century, academia, alps, american-abroad, anglo-american-relations, based-on-true-story, holiday, independent-film, may-december-romanceActors: Pierce Brosnan (actor), Stephen Apostolina (actor), Tom Skerritt (actor), Noble Willingham (actor), Wendy Hughes (actress), Tom Atkins (actor), Arthur B. Rubinstein (composer), Robert Prosky (actor), Michael Smiley (actor), Rick Rosenberg (producer), Jim Oliver (editor), Robert W. Christiansen (producer), James Gierman (miscellaneous crew), Brina (actress), Stuart Orme (director),
Plot: Neil Skinner, once a San Diego racetrack-security consultant, is now an ex-con who was framed by his ex-partner, Ebbet. Ebbet now controls track security as well as Neil's ex-girlfriend, Sheila. Neil now wants to revenge himself by stealing the day's take, and he enlists the help of several track regulars, including a janitor, a security guard, an and an ambulance driver. The money switches hands, cars chase each other over the Mexican border and back, and it's a struggle to see who will out-con whom.
Keywords: convertible, convicted-felon, detective, heist, race-track, robbery, surprise-ending, u.s.-mexico-border, vengeanceActors: Siân Phillips (actress), Daniel Day-Lewis (actor), Frank Williams (actor), Barry Foster (actor), Christopher Fairbank (actor), Kate Binchy (actress), Innes Lloyd (producer), Alan MacNaughton (actor), Donal O'Kelly (actor), Kevin Moore (actor), Geoffrey Burgon (composer), Philip Fox (actor), Moira Armstrong (director), Raymond Hughes (costume designer), David Gwillim (actor),
Plot: Wealthy Alexander Moore and working-class Jerry Crowe are childhood friends and in 1914 find themselves in the same Army unit - Alex as an officer and Jerry as a private. They still remain close, however, until Jerry is court-martialed for desertion, and Alex is put in charge of the firing squad.
Keywords: based-on-book, friendship-between-men, independent-film, world-war-one