Subterranea (geography)

Underground space, natural and man-made underground structures

For other uses, see Subterranea.

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

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* Caves
* Cenote
* Ice cave
* Sea cave
* Sinkhole
* Karst
* Lava tube
* Lunar and Martian lava tubes
* Subterranean river
* Subterranean waterfall
* Underground lake
* Volcanic pipe

## Human-made or human-related by common function

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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

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* Boring (earth)
* Seattle Underground
* Subterranean London

## References

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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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Subterranea

Natural features|

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* Alcove
* Ant colony
* Aquifer
* Burrow
* Burrow fossil
* Communal burrow
* Paleoburrow
* Cave
* Glacier cave
* Grotto
* Ice cave
* Lava cave
* Lava tube
* Pit Cave
* Show cave
* Solutional cave
* Talus cave
* Cenote
* Karst
* Lava tree mold
* Magma chamber
* Maternity den
* Nest
* Bee
* Pit crater
* Rock shelter
* Sinkhole
* Subterranean fauna
* Subterranean river
* Subterranean waterfall
* Underground lake
* Volcanic pipe
* Warren

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Exemplars|

* Balve Cave
* Castellana Caves
* Hang Sơn Đoòng
* Jewel Cave National Monument
* Kazumura Cave
* Lechuguilla Cave
* Mammoth Cave National Park
* Reed Flute Cave
* Subterranean rivers of London
* Veryovkina Cave
* Wind Cave National Park

Man-made features|

| Types|

* Air raid shelter
* Basement
* Burial vault
* Borehole
* Bunker
* Blast shelter
* Catacombs
* Casemate
* Crypt Mausoleum
* Dungeon
* Dugout (shelter)
* Dry well
* Earth shelter
* Erdstall
* Fallout shelter
* Fogou
* Foxhole
* Hypogeum
* Manhole
* Mine
* Missile launch facility
* Passage grave
* Quarry
* Rock-cut tomb
* Root cellar
* Tunnel
* Utility vault
* Underground city
* Underground base
* Underground hangar
* Well
* Wine cave
* Subway system
* Secret passage
* Semi-basement
* Sewerage
* Septic tank
* Stepwell
* Storm cellar
* Smuggling tunnel
* Spider hole
* Ventilation shaft

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Exemplars|

* 816 Nuclear Military Plant
* Caves of Maastricht
* The Caves of Ægissíða
* Almadén Mercury Mines
* Coober Pedy
* Cheyenne Mountain Complex
* Chicago Tunnel Company
* Houston tunnel system
* Kosvinsky Kamen
* Kőbánya cellar system
* Kome Caves
* Underground City (Beijing)
* Underground City, Montreal
* Underground Great Wall of China
* Maginot Line
* Mines of Paris
* Mustang Caves
* Mount Yamantau
* Mogao Caves
* Naples underground geothermal zone
* North American Aerospace Defense Command
* Raven Rock Mountain Complex
* Shanghai tunnels
* Subterranean London
* Subterranean Toledo
* Turda Salt Mines
* Yaodong

Fictional features|

| Types|

* Hollow Earth
* Subterranean fiction

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Exemplars|

* Allegory of the cave
* Batcave
* Greek Underworld
* Journey to the Center of the Earth
* Moria (Middle-earth)
* Nome Kingdom
* Pellucidar
* Subterranea (comics)
* Tunnels in popular culture
* Underdark
* Underland (Narnia)
* Wonderland (fictional country)

Organisations|

* American Society of Reclamation Sciences
* Bergamt
* Cave Research Foundation
* History of hard rock miners' organizations
* National Mine Map Repository
* National Mining Association
* National Speleological Society
* Grotto
* Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
* Institution of Mining Engineers
* International Union of Speleology
* Research Centre for Deep Drilling
* Society of Economic Geologists
* Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy

Related topics|

* Cave conservation
* Cave dweller
* Cave diving
* Cave gate
* Cave rescue
* Cave painting
* Caving
* Civil defense
* Tunnel warfare
* Tunnel network
* Trench warfare
* Underground construction
* Tunnel construction
* Underground living
* Mine rescue
* Mine exploration
* Mining engineering
* Mole people
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* Speleology
* Subterranean warfare

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Man-made and man-related subterranea

Natural features|

* Cave
* Cenote
* Grotto
* Sinkhole

Civilian features|

* Bank vault
* Basement
* Burial vault (tomb)
* Borehole
* Catacombs
* Dungeon
* Dugout (shelter)
* Dry well
* Earth shelter
* Erdstall
* Fogou
* Hypogeum
* Manhole
* Rapid transit
* Rock-cut tomb
* Root cellar
* Tunnel
* Utility vault
* Underground city
* Well
* Wine cave
* Secret passage
* Semi-basement
* Stepwell
* Storm cellar
* Smuggling tunnel
* Ventilation shaft

Military features|

* Air raid shelter
* Bunker
* Blast shelter
* Casemate
* Fallout shelter
* Missile launch facility (silo)
* Scallywag bunker
* Underground base
* Underground hangar
* Spider hole

Mining, quarrying, and
underground construction|

* Rock-cut architecture
* Subsurface utility engineering
* Tunnel construction
* Underground mine ventilation
* Underground hard-rock mining
* Underground soft-rock mining

Related topics|

* Cave dweller
* Caves of Maastricht
* Civil defense
* Coober Pedy
* Houston tunnel system
* Kőbánya cellar system
* Tunnel warfare
* Tunnel network
* Trench warfare
* Underground living
* Underground City (Beijing)
* Underground City, Montreal
* Mine exploration
* Mines of Paris
* Mole people
* Naples underground geothermal zone
* Sapping
* Subterranean London
* Subterranean Toledo
* Subterranean warfare
* Subterranean fiction

Earth shelters US|

* Bill Gates' house
* Forestiere Underground Gardens
* Underground House Colorado
* Underground House Las Vegas
* Underground World Home

Earth shelters UK|

* Underhill, Holme
* Hockerton Housing Project
* Malator

Earth shelters Australia|

* Coober Pedy
* Lightning Ridge

Authority control databases

International|

* FAST

National|

* United States
* France
* BnF data
* Czech Republic
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* Israel

Other|

* Yale LUX

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