Ghetarul de la Scarisoara Cave - details and images
Scărişoara Glacier Cave is a tourist attraction of national interest, the largest ice cave in the country. Glacier, with a volume of approximately 27,000 cubic meters and an average thickness of 22 meters is, according to latest research, the largest in Europe. Scărişoara Glacier is at an altitude of 1150 m. The cave has two floors, of which only higher education is accessible to tourists. It contains stalactites and stalagmites of ice formations that undergo changes every summer from melting. The second floor, the lower one, is accessible only caving and immense formations of calcite.
În pestera exista doua "entitati" glaciare distincte: blocul de gheata si formatiunile stalagmitice de gheata, fiecare cu o dinamica proprie.
1. Blocul de gheata: s-a format în urma cu 3500 de ani, când existau conditii climatice net diferit de cele de astazi: temperaturi mult mai scazute si precipitatii bogate. În prezent conditiile climatice nu sunt de natura a asigura formarea ghetii. Practic blocul de gheata se gaseste într-o stare continua de topire, în prezent el nefiind decât o "fosila", o structura mostenita din alte conditii climatice.
2. Stalagmitele de gheata: în cadrul acestei clase de formatiuni se disting doua categorii: stalagmitele dezvoltate pe blocul de gheata si stalagmitele formate independent de acesta.
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