I searched that book David mentioned about the Earth before the Deluge
(the Biblical flood). It does not contain the word "cave," perhaps
because there weren't any yet. A popular theory of speleogenesis in
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was that caves were eroded
when the water of the flood came from within the earth and/or when it
drained back into it. An extensive discussion, with references, is in
Trevor Shaw's "History of Cave Science," chapter 19. -- Bill Mixon
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