Draft:Cave Cups

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Cave Cups start from a single point in a supersaturated cave pool. As they grow, they grow out and up, creating a 'cup' or 'bowl' shape and slowly sinking the point into the pool.[1] They are often a smoth simiconical in shape. as these speleothems are delicate and form in water the pools they can be found in are always calm with little to no flow. The size of Caves cups ranges from 1cm to 20cm in diamiter, there size is determend by the depth of the pools they form in, the deeper the pool the biger the cve cup will be. the origin point for the groath of these formations can be ether from individual calcite crystals or form fragmented speleothems.[2][3]

Theses formations have been reported in caves in Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Korea, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Venezuela, and the United States.[4] and can range in size from smaller than the head of a pin to a large salad bowl, these speleothems are quite common and tend to form with crystal dogtooth spars.

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References

  1. ^ Hill, Carol A. and Paolo Forti. 1995. The classification of cave minerals and speleothems. International Journal of Speleology, 24: 77-82. Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/ijs/vol24/iss1/5
  2. ^ Merino, A., Ginés, J., Tuccimei, P., Soligo, M., & Fornós, J. (2014a). Speleothems in Cova des Pas de Vallgornera: Their distribution and characteristics within an extensive coastal cave from the Eogenetic Karst of Southern Mallorca (western Mediterranean). International Journal of Speleology, 43(2), 125–142. https://doi.org/10.5038/1827-806x.43.2.3
  3. ^ G. Lazaridis, L. Papadopoulou, M.-O. Voudouri (2019). Cave pearls from Almopia Speleopark (Greece): preliminary results. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Geology.
  4. ^ Hill, C A, and Forti, P, (1997). Cave Minerals of the World, (2nd edition). [Huntsville, Alabama: National Speleological Society Inc.] pp. 217, 225

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