Subterranea (geography)

Subterranean river in Castellet-lès-Sausses

Subterranea are underground structures, both natural (such as caves) and human-made (such as mines).[1]

Some subterranea and related topics include:

Natural

  • Caves
    • Cenote
    • Ice cave
    • Sea cave
    • Sinkhole
  • Karst
  • Lava tube
    • Lunar and Martian lava tubes
  • Subterranean river
  • Subterranean waterfall
  • Underground lake
  • Volcanic pipe
Entrance to the underground vault of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building
Large underground Ancient Roman cistern in Chieti, Italy

The following is a list of examples of structures which are or can be underground.

  • Civil defense
    • Air raid shelter
    • Blast shelter
    • Fallout shelter
    • Storm cellar
  • Cultural heritage
    • Catacombs
    • Dungeon
    • Erdstall
    • Fogou
    • Hypogeum
    • Passage grave
    • Rock-cut architecture
      • Rock-cut tomb
  • Disposal of corpses or religion:
    • Burial vault
    • Crypt
  • Living
    • Basement
    • Cave dwelling
    • Dugout
    • Earth shelter
    • Underground city
  • Maintenance
    • Manhole
    • Utility vault
  • Extractive activities
    • Mine
    • Quarry
  • Military
    • Bunker
    • Casemate
    • Foxhole
    • Missile launch facility
    • Spiderhole
    • Underground base
    • Underground hangar
  • Storage
    • Bank vault
    • Root cellar
    • Wine cave
  • Transport
    • Tunnel
      • Smuggling tunnel
    • Secret passage
    • Underground rapid transit system
  • Water supply, wastewater or drainage
    • Dry well
    • Stepwell
    • Sewerage
    • Well
  • Other or multiple functions
    • Borehole
    • Ventilation shaft

See also

  • Boring (earth)
  • Seattle Underground
  • Subterranean London

References

  1. ↑ Margineanu, Romul Mircea (2019). "Radon measurements in underground mines and caves from several European countries". AIP Conference Proceedings. 2076. Author(s): 050004. doi:10.1063/1.5091643.


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