US National Parks & Monuments
Along with the capital dome formation in the Dome Room at Crystal Cave in Sequoia National Park (CA) is one of the largest and most magnificent calcite (bright white – the whiter the calcite, the purer it is) flows I have encountered in the limited number of caves I have explored. It extends from the back of the Dome Room and comes all the way to the walking path in the cave:
The Dome Room at Crystal Cave in Sequoia National Park (CA) is one of the larger cave rooms with a number of interesting (and beautiful) cave formations. The Dome Room is named after a large cave formation which resembles the capital building dome.
Once you leave Junction Room, you come to the Curtain Room at Crystal Cave in Sequoia National Park (CA). The room gets its name from the cave formations that hang down the edge of rocks to form what looks like a giant curtain:
One of the first cave formation you will come to upon entering Crystal Cave in Sequoia National Park (CA) is Emerald Pool. This is a series of fairly large rimstone dams (calcite and other minerals that build up in cave pools which create formations that often look like stairs) filled with water that are still actively growing. Emerald Pool gives a wonderful preview of what is yet to come in Crystal Cave:
