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Definition
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Ideal cave pearls are spheres that range ~0.2 to 10 – 15 mm in diameter.
Ford and Williams, 2007
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cave pearl - a smooth, polished and rounded speleothem found in shallow hollows into which water drips.
Gillieson, 1996
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cave pearl : Small concretion of calcite or aragonite formed by concentric precipitation around a nucleus. Synonyms, pisolite, pisolith.
Monroe, 1970
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Cave pearls are near-spherical, unattached speleothem hat form in pools agitated by water dripping from considerable heights.
White and Culver, 2012
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Frame
| CAUSE | formed by concentric precipitation around a nucleus |
| agitated by water dripping from considerable heights | |
| FORM | polished |
| rounded | |
| smooth | |
| spheres | |
| near-spherical | |
| COMPOSITION | of calcite or aragonite |
| LOCATION | found in shallow hollows into which water drips |
| unattached speleothem | |
| SIZE | Small |
| range ~ 0.2 to 10 – 15 mm in diameter | |
| form in pools |
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