Skyline caverns

My labmate D came to visit this weekend, and we explored the Front Royal area a bit. We made it to the Skyline Caverns, which were really neat to see... it's like another world, underground.

Here are some stalactites and some flowstone...


Here's a shallow pool where the surface of the water reflects the stone ceiling above it. So cool.



Skyline Caverns is most famous for the development of calcium carbonate anthodites, which look like crystal flowers. They are absolutely amazing. They formed in a vacuum chamber that was disturbed when the caverns were being explored.




So cool!