The Great Heart of Timpanogos

Timpanogos Cave National Monument is a cave system in the Wasatch mountains near American Fork, Utah, in the United States. After a fairly difficult 1.5 mile hike on a paved trail up the side of a mountain, the cave opening is accessible. Tours are run when the monument is open from May through October. The Great Heart of Timpanogos Originally from www2. ... The Great Heart of Timpanogos Originally from www2. ... Alternate meanings: Cave (disambiguation) This article is about natural caves; for artificial caves used as dwellings, such as those in north China, see yaodong. ... The Wasatch Range (also seen as Wasatch Mountains and Wahsatch Range) is a mountain range that stretches from southern Idaho and Wyoming south through central Utah in the Western United States. ... Mount McKinley in Alaska has one of the largest visible base-to-summit elevation differences anywhere A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. ... American Fork is a city located in Utah County, Utah at the foot of Mount Timpanogos of the Wasatch Range. ... Utah is one of the Four Corners states, and is bordered by: Idaho (at 42°N) and Wyoming (at 41°N and 111°W) in the north, by Colorado (at 109°W) in the east, at a single point by New Mexico to the southeast (at the Four Corners Monument...

There are three main chambers accessible in the tour: Hansen Cave, Middle Cave, and Timpanogos Cave. Many unique and colorful cave features or speleothems can be seen. Among the most interesting are the helictites, which are like hollowed straws of rock. They are thought to be formed when water travels through the tube and then evaporates, leaving a small mineral deposit at the end. Other spleothems found in the cave include: cave bacon, cave columns, flowstone, cave popcorn, cave drapery, stalactites and stalagmites. A speleothem (from the Greek for cave deposit) is a formal term for what is also known as a cave formation, or amongst cavers, collectively known as pretties. ... A helictite is a speleothem found in limestone caves that changes its axis from the vertical at one or more stages during its growth. ... Flowstone is composed of sheetlike deposits of calcite formed where water flows down the walls or along the floors of a cave. ... Cave Popcorn, or cave coral, is a very common cave formation. ... Flowstone is composed of sheetlike deposits of calcite formed where water flows down the walls or along the floors of a cave. ... Formation of stalactites. ... The Witchs Finger in the Carlsbad Caverns A stalagmite (from the Greek stalagma, drop) is a type of speleothem that rises from the floor of a limestone cave due to the dripping of mineralized solutions and the depositation of calcium carbonate. ...

See also

• List of U.S. national parks and protected areas
• Mount Timpanogos

All United States parks designated National Parks and most National Monuments are maintained by the National Park Service of the United States which also maintains several other types of protected areas of the United States: // National Parks As of 2005, there are 58 officially-designated National Parks in the United... Mount Timpanogos is the second highest mountain in the Wasatch Range of Utah, at 11,749. Mt. ...

External links

• National Park Service page on the Timpanogos
• A Utah travel site page about the caves
• A large collecton of Timpanogos Cave speleothem pictures
• Local caving Grotto
• Timpanogos Cave National Monument - National Parks Gallery