Sunday, February 26, 2023

Mossy Cave

Mossy Cave isn’t actually a cave at all. It is a grotto. The grotto forms as an underground spring permeates the bedrock and slowly dissolves the calcite that bonds the silts and muds. During the short spring and summer season, in this otherwise arid landscape, this cool moist environment is the perfect place for mosses to grow. Icicles form in the cave in the winter, and being sheltered from the sun, sometimes last until June.
 

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