Gypsum Flowers, Jewel Cave National Monument

Fantastic corkscrew and squiggly shapes created by white gypsum and an ink pen next to the cave formations for scale at Jewel Cave National Monument
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National Park Service
Starting Display Date: 
Monday, October 7, 2024

Gypsum "flowers" are a speleothem (cave formation) that form when thicker gypsum crystals form and grow outward from the cave walls. They often form curved or flower-petal-like shapes. To learn more about speleothems at Jewel Cave, click here.

Jewel Cave National Monument
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