Adventure landscapes
Into Titan
Key questions:
- What and where is Titan?
- What would it be like to explore the largest vertical cave in the UK?
Key Concepts:
Place
Physical processes
What / Where is Titan?
Titan is the UK's largest vertical cave. It is located at Hurdlow, Castleton, Derbyshire.
What would it be like to explore the largest vertical cave in the UK?
The vertical cavern, named Titan, measures a vertical drop of approximately 140m from top of the main shaft, some 60m higher than the previous record at Gaping Ghyll in the Yorkshire Dales. Water has passed down joints and along bedding planes for thousands, possibly millions of year dissolving the limestone as it flowed generating tunnels and caverns beneath the surface.
Click on an activity:
Starter
Main activity
Plenary
Google earth placemark – Titan/Castleton map
Links:
Dress a caver
http://www.bec-cave.org.uk/index.php?option=com_
wrapper&Itemid=65
Inglesport caving equipment
http://www.inglesport.co.uk/caving.php
Map of Titan location
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t
=k&om=1&msa=0&msid=1068954221
70144132172.00000112e7b2d4df5c24b&z=19
Guide to Titan
http://www.hitchnhike.co.uk/pdc/cave_guide_peak_titan.htm
Titan pictures
http://daveclucas.com/titangallery/index.html
http://www.hitchnhike.co.uk/pdc/photo_titan.htm
Titan image
http://w01-0504.web.dircon.net/pdc/photo_19990206
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http://w01-0504.web.dircon.net/pdc/photo_20050506
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Titan video from BBC
Short http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news/video/
64000/bb/64582_16x9_bb.asx