Re: [Texascavers] Mexico's Cave of Crystals - Nat. Geo's 5th most viewed news pix of 2007

2007-12-26 Thread Lyndon Tiu
Don Arburn wrote: http://giantcrystals.strahlen.org/america/naica.htm includes a Google Earth link! "It is a single huge chamber about 70m in diameter and is still acessible to geoscientists and even - as far as we know - to the public. " Road Trip! Count me in! -- Lyndon Tiu

Re: [Texascavers] Mexico's Cave of Crystals - Nat. Geo's 5th most viewed news pix of 2007

2007-12-26 Thread Don Arburn
http://giantcrystals.strahlen.org/america/naica.htm includes a Google Earth link! "It is a single huge chamber about 70m in diameter and is still acessible to geoscientists and even - as far as we know - to the public. " Road Trip! On Dec 26, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Mike Quinn wrote: Giant Cr

[Texascavers] Mexico's Cave of Crystals - Nat. Geo's 5th most viewed news pix of 2007

2007-12-26 Thread Mike Quinn
Giant Crystal Cave Comes to Light Crisscrossed with gems up to 36 feet (11 meters) long, Mexico's Cave of Crystals looks like nothing so much as Superman's Fortress of Solitude. That otherworldly appeal-which helped make the cave gallery our fifth most viewed of 2007-is a big reason we still g