BCP 102 AC: V4 (First Timers)

CARBONIC ACID AND CAVES: This acid is made when raindrops fall through the sky.  The raindrops interact with the carbon dioxide in the air and form carbonic acid–H2CO2 

CARBONIC ACID AND CAVES: Stalactites hang tight to the ceilings.  Stalagmites grow from the floor of a cave.

CARBONIC ACID AND CAVES: Mudstone caves are usually dissolved by carbonic acid. 

CARBONIC ACID AND CAVES: Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico seems to have been formed by hydrogen sulfide gas mixing with water which forms the cave-dissolving sulfuric acid–the battery acid.

CARBONIC ACID AND CAVES: Formations are made from carbonic acid-dissolved calcium carbonate that seeps into the caves from pond water.

CARBONIC ACID AND CAVES: Another name for formations in caves is speleothems. 

CARBONIC ACID AND CAVES: Sheetlike flowstones can form draperies, cave bacon or cave tufa.

CARBONIC ACID AND CAVES: Jeita Grotto in Lebanon claims the world champion stalactite reaching 66 feet!

STALACTITES AND STALAGMITES: Cave formations can from rapidly. Examples include: a bat being encased in a stalactite, the Sequoyah Caverns grew ten inches in ten years, a 5-foot high “shawl” found in a tunnel in Australia and the fly geyser, a 12’ tall calcium carbonate formation that began growing in the 1960’s.

CARBONIC ACID/STALACTITES AND STALAGMITES: Carbonic acid is called the digestive acid.  It is formed from the CO2 you breathe out.