Deep beneath the sun-scorched plains of northern Mexico, an astonishing underground cave defies belief. In the heart of the ...

I paused to watch them scatter over a rise, leaping through a cluster of the prickly lechuguilla bushes for which the cave was named ... in a myriad of forms: crystals, flakes, flowers, spikes ...

Wisshak is publishing research on the unique barite crystals in Lechuguilla Cave. He has also applied for grant funding to return to the site for a broader study of the crystals. Both the pool and ...

The country's deepest cave, located in Carlsbad, New Mexico, is called Lechuguilla Cave and extends ... formations that are still growing. Crystal Cave in Springfield, Missouri, features a cavern ...

But since the Lechuguilla Cave has been virtually untouched for ... Samples of the cave’s bacteria – found in pristine crystals – are not infectious to humans, but have the capability ...

"This cave pool, found in Lechuguilla Cave ... Although it appears to be cloudy in pictures, the pool is actually crystal clear and is most likely ancient filtered rainwater which seeped through ...

Four of the seven longest caves on Earth — Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, Jewel Cave and Wind Cave in South Dakota, and Lechuguilla Cave ... massive crystal chambers and underground rivers and ...

The caverns of Lechuguilla Cave are some of the strangest on the ... and chandeliers of crystal. Parts of Lechuguilla have been cut off from the surface for four to seven million years, and ...

Lechuguilla cave, in the USA, is 193 kilometres long and 500 metres deep. It contains whole chambers filled with the most astonishing crystals including some a staggering six metres long.

400m under a desert, the world's largest gypsum chandeliers adorn a cavern called Lechuguilla Cave. There, dazzling white crystals create delicate branches up to 6m in length. Gypsum is soluble in ...

A stunning variety of cave formations decorate the edge of Lake Lebarge. The massive gypsum deposits lining Lechuguilla's limestone ... the gypsum bushes and crystals, the rock flour, the stalactites.

Wisshak is publishing research on the unique barite crystals in Lechuguilla Cave. He has also applied for grant funding to return to the site for a broader study of the crystals. Both the pool and ...