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Wishing Well Cave was discovered by an intensive excavation operation that followed a wisp of air movement from a rubble pile in a shallow sinkhole. Following two years of excavation, the cave was entered and exploration began in 2010. The cave consists of two major passages in the upper portion of the Licking Creek Limestone. Most of the cave is beneath the sandstone caprock and is northeast of the main Burnsville Cove drainage. The cave appears to be a segment of the paleodrainage to Emory Spring. The cave contains extensive displays of speleothems including helictitees and ice-clear stalactites.
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Farrar, N., Lucas, P.C. (2015). Probing the Wishing Well. In: White, W. (eds) The Caves of Burnsville Cove, Virginia. Cave and Karst Systems of the World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14391-0_13
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