Wisconsin

The karst areas of Wisconsin are located along the eastern and southern border of the state. Silurian and Ordovician dolomites cover large areas in the southern corner of the State. Several show caves are located here. But spacious caverns are rather rare and the speleothems are not comparable to those of other states. The interesting features of those caves are their sediments and solutional features like the profiles of the passages. A rather small area of Ordovician Prairie du Chien dolomite is in the western corner of the state. Here is another show cave of the state located, Crystal Cave.

The central part of the state is Cambrian sandstone and in the north are even older Precambrian igneous and metamorphic rocks showing no caves at all.

• Badger Mine and Museum
• Crystal Cave
• Eagle Cave
• Kickapoo Indian Caverns
• Ledge View Nature Center
• Maribel New Hope Cave
• Milton House
• Cave of the Mounds
• Platteville Mining Museum
• St. John Mine
• Witches Gulch

• See also
• Wisconsin Speleological Society
• Bedrock geology of Wisconsin (1981; revised 1995)
• Water Resources in Wisconsin, USGS
• Geology Museum, University of Wisconsin-Madison