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That speleogenesis is although the term literally means the birth, origin or mode of formation of caves, the full extent of speleogenesis includes all the changes that take place between the inception and the eventual destruction of an underground drainage system. it includes development phases during which the active drainage voids are too small to be considered caves as normally defined, as well as phases when the cave no longer functions as a drain, is enlarging only by collapse and, eventually, is being totally removed [9].?

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