Mexico’s Cueva de los Cristales, or Cave of Crystals, may look like Superman’s Fortress of Solitude. But unlike its comic book counterpart, this cave’s assortment of supersized crystals took a lot longer than a few minutes to grow.
The gypsum crystals in Mexico’s Cueva de los Cristales, or Cave of Crystals, grow a mere billionth of a meter per day, the slowest growth rate ever measured in a crystal, a new study finds.
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