GYPSUM!!!
Have you ever seen crystals so big? Is this Superman's ice-cave? No! It's gypsum crystals 11 meters long in a lead mine 300 meters deep in Naica, Mexico.
These colossal crystals, [says García-Ruiz], are “every crystallographer’s dream.”
photo from Geology, article on geotimes.org
-Louis
posted by A Geologist at 4:18 p.m.
2 Comments:
nice! great pic thanks capt!
T_MORB
Lets grind them up to make some highway! Yiiihaw! Pave the world!!
LC
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