A cave in northern Greenland shows the Arctic once thawed under mild conditions. Scientists say even small warming can ...

Between the Sinks and the Rise of the Middle Fork of the Popo Agie, the river famously disappears into subterranean mystery.

While driving through the Ozark Mountains you’ll see signs for cave tours popping up along the highways, byways, and through ...

Hanging above C.J. Page’s head is the smiling mouth of a drooling monster at least, that’s what it looked like to me. Lathered in dripping, waxy calcite deposits, the mouth is actually a massive, ...

Hidden deep under the snow and even deeper under the earth is an underground river source unknown that trickles out from fissures in a limestone wall and flows through the tunnels and broken rocks of ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A calcite formation named Snowy River could prove a gold mine for scientists. Snowy River, believed to be the largest continuous calcite formation in the world, was discovered in ...

From the Middle Bronze Age, Egypt played a crucial role in the appearance of calcite-alabaster artifacts in Israel, and the development of the local gypsum-alabaster industry. The absence of ancient ...

The precipitation of carbonate minerals by Rhodococcus sp. strain S14 isolated from Kotumsar cave, Chhattisgarh, India is reported. The speleothems at Kotumsar showed high microbial cell enumeration ...

From the Middle Bronze Age, Egypt played a crucial role in the appearance of calcite-alabaster artifacts in Israel, and the development of the local gypsum-alabaster industry. The absence of ancient ...

A new study allows for the first time the distinction between calcite-alabaster originating in Israel from that originating in Egypt. Furthermore, it confirms that calcite-alabaster objects, such as ...