What is this thing? A speleothem(?) found in King Pot..

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rhyst

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Hey everyone,

On a recent trip to King Pot whilst waiting for some rigging my friend dived up a disgusting looking inlet and found a small, closed fist size formation on the floor.

Pictures here:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/wW4IFn8FyOGj679j1

The material was solid but the details small enough to be fragile.

Any clues as to what it is?

Thanks,
Rhys
 
Pitlamp

Pitlamp

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Looks like an underwater crystalline calcite deposit; which grew in a still pool fed by autogenic flow (what cavers call "percolation water"). Known to some as "cave coral". There's a lot of similar material in the show cave at Clapham (particularly in a feature called the "Crystal Pool").
 
tim.rose2

tim.rose2

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Interesting this should come up.  I posted a picture on another thread a couple of weeks ago (https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=23354.0) of something which I found on Portland in Dorset which looks very similar (apologies you will have to scroll down a bit - I can't work out how to link direct to the correct post).  I to am interested in what it is.  We have loads of bits of it in some dig spoil - range of sizes from a few cm's to lumps the size of your fist.
 
Alex

Alex

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Loads of stuff like this abroad. Formations like this are 10 a dozen in Matienzo.
 
Pitlamp

Pitlamp

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alastairgott said:
Pitlamp said:
There's a lot of similar material in the show cave at Clapham (particularly in a feature called the "Crystal Pool").
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A shameless plug ;) :) (for a great showcave)
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Sorry about that; I  avoided typing the cave's name on purpose, as I didn't want to upset anybody or possibly break any forum rules.  But it probably has the most extensive area of "cave coral" in the Dales, in the public section.
 
aricooperdavis

aricooperdavis

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tim.rose2 said:
I can't work out how to link direct to the correct post
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You can click the post title above that particular post and it'll add a bit of info to the URL.

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