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aragonite and calcite popcorns in "Suttaterra De Su Predargiu's Cave", Mount Oseli, Sardinia.
The picture is a macro, however acicular aragonite covered up the whole walls of the room wich is several meters wide. Quite impressive.
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[ Post a Comment ]| BazZ | Strange | | 
Voted 10/10 | Things are growing in that caves ;)
Thanks for showing | | Posted Mar 23, 2007 7:46 pm |
 | | banzai.barbara | Re: Strange | | 
Hasn't voted | thank YOU for voting all my pics, I'm glad you liked them. I agree with you, strange things grow in caves...it's surprising what water can do!
cheers. ;-)
b. | | Posted Mar 24, 2007 12:09 pm |
| donhaller3 | The picture is a macro | | 
Voted 10/10 | Can you give us a rough idea of the scale? | | Posted Apr 23, 2007 7:56 pm |
| | banzai.barbara | Re: The picture is a macro | |
Hasn't voted | I'm afraid I can't remember exactly. Anyways, assuming every needle is big less than an inch, every single bunch of that aragonite formations is 7-8 inches big.
Cave walls were covered with that for about 130 ft in lenght and 15-10 ft in height, more or less.
I can't calculate but it was beautiful!
| | Posted Apr 24, 2007 8:57 am |
| | donhaller3 | Re: The picture is a macro | |
Voted 10/10 | Thanks, helps me vizualize. Just what I wanted. Keep taking pictures. | | Posted Apr 24, 2007 10:42 am |
| Dan Dalton | Ohhh.... | | 
Voted 10/10 | attach this one too! All of you photos are really amazing and high quality. Thanks for sharing!
Dan | | Posted Jun 8, 2007 1:43 pm |
| | banzai.barbara | Re: Ohhh.... | |
Hasn't voted | thanks for your nice comments. You can check my gallery sometimes and feel free to pic up whatever you like for your album and submissions. more to come soon.
cheers.
b. | | Posted Jun 8, 2007 3:09 pm |
| markmay | Super interesting!! | | 
Hasn't voted | Looks like coral polyps or something alive. Very cool...thanks for sharing! | | Posted Jun 27, 2007 1:38 am |
| | banzai.barbara | Re: Super interesting!! | |
Hasn't voted | super-thanks! :-)
aragonite is pretty much the same as calcite, but cristallyze in a different way.
I'm not a former chemist and neither want to bother you with formulas, though :-) :-) | | Posted Jun 27, 2007 4:38 am |
| | markmay | Re: Super interesting!! | |
Hasn't voted | If not "former", are you at present a chemist?
| | Posted Jun 27, 2007 11:53 am |
| | banzai.barbara | Re: Super interesting!! | |
Hasn't voted | nope! just a dumb-ass-at-maths...
but i love caves and try to understand more about them
;-)
(you're right...should i have said I'm not -blablabla- ...a "graduated" chemist?) | | Posted Jun 27, 2007 12:45 pm |
| lcarreau | Math is a good subject, | | 
Voted 10/10 | but it gives me a headache! When I look at your picture with the 'popcorn,' it makes me very hungry for some ... popcorn or pizza! Ciao (again) :) - Larry of the Desert | | Posted Mar 18, 2008 8:57 pm |
| | banzai.barbara | Re: Math is a good subject, | |
Hasn't voted | ?
I can't see the relationship between maths, 'popcorn'and pizza.
I guess that's because I'm pretty dumb at maths me too. :) LOL
see ya desert man | | Posted Mar 19, 2008 4:24 am |
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