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Stalagmites, stalactites, and draperies by a pool. Lechuguilla Cave offers more than extreme size. It holds a variety of rare speleothems, including lemon-yellow sulfur deposits, 20-foot (6.1 m) gypsum chandeliers, 20-foot (6.1 m) gypsum hairs and beards, 15-foot (4.6 m) soda straws, hydromagnesite balloons, cave pearls, subaqueous helictites, rusticles, U-loops, and J-loops.
Carlsbad Caverns National Park. Carlsbad Caverns National Park is a national park of the United States in the Guadalupe Mountains of southeastern New Mexico. The primary attraction of the park is the show cave Carlsbad Cavern. Visitors to the cave can hike in on their own via the natural entrance or take an elevator from the visitor center.
Gypsum stalactites in a cave formed via sulfuric acid dissolution (Lechuguilla Cave, New Mexico) A solutional cave, solution cave, or karst cave is a cave usually formed in the soluble rock limestone. It is the most frequently occurring type of cave. It can also form in other rocks, including chalk, dolomite, marble, salt beds, and gypsum.
Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, ... Large gypsum crystals in Lechuguilla Cave's "chandelier ballroom"
Karst. Typical karst terrain of the Dinaric Alps. Lijiang fengcong (cone karst) in Guilin as part of the South China Karst. Karst formation of the Serra de Tramuntana. Karst (/ kɑːrst /) is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble carbonate rocks such as limestone and dolomite.
1978. Gunung Mulu National Park, also a World Heritage Site. 9. Lechuguilla Cave. 244.7 km (152.0 mi) [15][16] near Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States. 32°11′26″N 104°30′12″W / 32.1906420°N 104.5033091°W / 32.1906420; -104.5033091 (Grotte de Lechuguilla) 1900. Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
The park contains over 100 karst caves, including Carlsbad Caverns (interior pictured) and Lechuguilla Cave. The latter exhibits rare and unique speleothems, including those made of gypsum. Formations also include helictites, calcite structures, and biothems, the formation of which is assisted by bacteria.
Lechuguilla Cave, New Mexico, United States. A cave or cavern is a natural void under the Earth's surface. [1] Caves often form by the weathering of rock and often extend deep underground. Exogene caves are smaller openings that extend a relatively short distance underground (such as rock shelters).