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Here you can clearly see a tectonic movement in action has fractured the
 earth and created a fault line, With the earth broken water has seeped into
 the crack and expanded the passage it is now large enough to go through.
 You may also notice the white color of the cave walls.  This is gypsum
 stone, it is the same material that is used in making "plaster board" or
 "sheet rock" it is a very soft stone.

Measurement of Hardness Scale

  1. Talc

  2. Gypsum

  3. Calcite (Most Marbles)

  4. Fluorite

  5. Apatite

  6. Feldspar (Granite)

  7. Quartz (Granite)

  8. Topaz

  9. Corundum

  10. Diamond




www.UAYCEF.org - Ternopol-Podilskyi Ukraine Trip -- -- Priest's Grotto, Aug 2003