Thisis a preliminary study on cave minerals of a few limestone caves in Saudi Arabia. Despite the paucity of the analyzed samples, 14 different cave minerals have been detected. Amomg them palygorskite seemps to be rather common in the desert caves and in one of them (B31 cave) there is perhaps the best display of this mineral inside a natural cavity. The same cave also hosts a deposit of sideronatrite, which has been herewith reported for the fist time as a cave mineral. Finally Murubbeh cave, a supposed thermal cave, hosts large calcite crystals and widrespread cave rafts together with two uncommon organic compounds( wedellite and whewellite)
Cave minerals of some limestone caves of Saudi Arabia / Forti P.; Galli E.; Rossi A.; Pint J.; Pint S.. - STAMPA. - 1:(2008), pp. 134-138. (Intervento presentato al convegno 14 International Congress of Speleology tenutosi a Kalamos nel 21-28 Agosto 2005).
Cave minerals of some limestone caves of Saudi Arabia
FORTI, PAOLO;
2008
Abstract
Thisis a preliminary study on cave minerals of a few limestone caves in Saudi Arabia. Despite the paucity of the analyzed samples, 14 different cave minerals have been detected. Amomg them palygorskite seemps to be rather common in the desert caves and in one of them (B31 cave) there is perhaps the best display of this mineral inside a natural cavity. The same cave also hosts a deposit of sideronatrite, which has been herewith reported for the fist time as a cave mineral. Finally Murubbeh cave, a supposed thermal cave, hosts large calcite crystals and widrespread cave rafts together with two uncommon organic compounds( wedellite and whewellite)I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
