Peştera Liliecilor (Liliecilor Cave) from the Olteţului Gorges. Mineralogical data

Abstract

By means of RX and IR analyses we emphasize an associations of minerals in Peştera Liliecilor (Liliecilor Cave) from the Olteţului Gorges made up by hydroxylapatite, carbonate-hydroxylapatite, ardealite, brushite and gypsum as the main minerals and quartz and illite as secondary minerals. In the final part of the paper, the authors present some opinions about the possible genesis of the mineral species

Keywords

• cave minerals
• hydroxylapatite
• carbonate-hydroxylapatite
• ardealite
• brushite
• gypsum