Akka Cave - Akkado

Japanese: 安家洞 - あっかどう
Akka Cave - Akkado

This limestone cave is located in Yasuie, Iwaizumi-cho, Shimohei-gun, northeastern Iwate Prefecture. It has a total length of over 23.7 km and is a national natural monument. It developed in the Jurassic Yasuie limestone, with the main cave being about 2,300 m long and the cave being complex and labyrinthine. Along the course of the limestone layer, it slopes at 50-60 degrees to the west or south, and you can see the groundwater dissolving the limestone to form stalactites and stalagmites extending into a single stone pillar. It is estimated that the cave is geologically over 200 million years old, and has evolved in an ever-changing form, including stalactites, stalagmites, stone pillars, flowstones, and curtains (limestone curtains), and limbstones can also be seen in several places. It is a cave center that can be compared to Akiyoshidai (Yamaguchi Prefecture) in the south and Yasuka Cave in the north.

[Tadashi Kawamoto]

[Reference] | Cave

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

岩手県北東部、下閉伊(しもへい)郡岩泉町安家にある鍾乳洞(しょうにゅうどう)。総延長23.7キロメートルを超える。国の天然記念物。ジュラ紀安家石灰岩中に発達し、主洞の長さ約2300メートル、洞は複雑で迷路が多い。石灰岩層の走行に沿って、西または南に50~60度に傾き、地下水が石灰岩を溶解して鍾乳石になる状態や、石筍(せきじゅん)が伸びて1本の石柱になる状態がみられる。地質学的には2億数千万年経過していると推定され、鍾乳石、石筍、石柱、フローストン、カーテン(石灰幕)など千変万化の形で展開し、リムストン(畔石(あぜいし))も数か所で認められる。南の秋吉(あきよし)台(山口県)に対して北の安家洞ともいえる洞窟(どうくつ)センターである。

[川本忠平]

[参照項目] | 鍾乳洞

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