N.M. cavers chart unique `snowy' river of crystals
Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 04:07
in Earth & Climate
FORT STANTON CAVE, N.M. (AP) -- Hundreds of feet beneath Earth's surface, a few seasoned cave explorers venture where no human has set foot. Their headlamps illuminate mud-covered walls, gypsum crystals and mineral deposits....
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