Specific features of calcite speleotems of Ldzaava cave (Abkhazia)

Authors

  • Sergey Sergeevich Potapov Institute of Mineralogy South Ural Federal Research Center and Environmental Geoscience Mineralogy of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Olga Yakovlevna Chervyatsova State natural reserve "Shulgan-Tash"
  • Vladimir Ivanovich Rakin Komi Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Roman Saidovich Dbar Institute of Ecology Academy of Sciences of Abkhazia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17072/chirvinsky.2021.192

Abstract

In the Ldzaava cave near the coast of the Pitsunda Bay of the Black Sea, in the carbonate speleothems in the roof of the Central Hall, hollow «boxes» were found, the body of which is composed of perfect flat rhombohedral crystals of calcite close to each other. The mechanism of education is discussed.

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Published

2021-10-10

Issue

No. 24 (2021): Чтения памяти П.Н. Чирвинского 2021

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How to Cite

Specific features of calcite speleotems of Ldzaava cave (Abkhazia). (2021). Problems of Mineralogy, Petrography and Metallogeny. Scientific Readings in Memory of P.N. Chirvinsky, 24, 192-196. https://doi.org/10.17072/chirvinsky.2021.192