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Length of sea caves[edit]

The section Factors influencing size seems to say the longest sea cave in the world is 340 m long. Are caves that were created by erosion from the ocean itself the only kind of sea cave? Isn't any cave that has water connected to the ocean in it or sometimes has water that's connected to the ocean in it called a sea cave? If a cave is formed by rain water dissolving part of some really high ground creating a hole in the process then the hole starts getting longer from the dissolution continuing then it finally gets so long that its other end is right by the sea and sea water even goes into it during high tide, isn't it also considered to be a sea cave? Aren't sea caves formed by that method way longer than 340 m? Blackbombchu (talk) 00:58, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

All good questions, but it's a matter of definition. The first paragraph sums it up nicely. Caves formed by karst processes were not formed by sea processes, and thus are not sea caves, although they may be modified by sea action. --Langcliffe (talk) 09:07, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled[edit]

Today I've made some major changes to the sea cave page to reflect the discovery and survey of the world's longest sea caves in New Zealand which were published in 2013. I added references appropriate to this as well as a significant new book about coastal caves. Not sure about the best way to cite references in the text, if someone knows a better way please fix it.

Dave Bunnell (talk) 04:51, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Good work. Using the refs once inline works great, so I just removed the duplicates in the bibliography section. Dawnseeker2000 03:05, 31 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The first couple of sentences in the "factors influencing size" section is now incorrect based on the updated list of long sea caves of the world on caverbob.com 184.189.216.114 (talk) 07:33, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What lives in these sea caves[edit]

What lives in these sea caves 2409:4055:2DB4:A07D:7C09:5A28:7A75:CB34 (talk) 15:25, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]