Movie - Naica, secrets of crystal cave, discovery channel

Question 1

Why are naica cave so dangerous?

Answer 1

100% humidity kills

45 degrees celcius

Question 2

What was weird mineral about cave? How did mineral grow?

Answer 2

HUGE gypsum crystals

-water was in gypsum, became super saturated, began to grow on walls, being 45 degrees really helped

Question 3

Features/random facts of the gypsum

Answer 3

400k year old crystals

Question 4

Talk about fluid inclusions in the crystals

Answer 4

tiny bubbles formed in the crystals as they were forming

Question 5

What got trapped in the crystals?

Answer 5

organic material

Question 6

How did one of them see how long gyspsum took to grow? How long did they grow? What did he conclude? (How old was big crystal)

Answer 6

this guy left a piece of gypsum a year and a half ago in that cave, and he came back to see how big it is.the crystal grew 1 mm in 18 months
400k years old were the big crystals off that calculations