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The Marble Caves are so smooth, they look like they've been hollowed out with an ice cream scoop. But the caves formed due to the slow action of lake water, which dissolved minerals in the rocks until the walls crumbled. Researchers think this occurred over the past 10,000 to 15,000 years, after glaciers retreated from the region and exposed its stone to weathering.
"When a rock undergoes metamorphosis, new minerals are formed," Hervé Allamand said, referring to brown and yellow veins within the marble.
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