#naica

[ghminerals]

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[geologyin-blog]

Mexico's Giant Crystal Cave Is Beautiful But Deadly. Discovered by chance, the Cave of Crystals in Naica features enormous crystal formations in conditions so extreme they can be lethal, though the cave itself isn't literally large enough to drive a car through.

[bulkbinbox]

caverna de cristais, naica, chihuahua, méxico, por volta de 2008. foto de carsten peter. 

[ilostmygh0st]

The Cave of the Crystals is a cave in Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico that holds the world's largest selenite crystal formations. Selenite is a type of gypsum composed of calcium sulfate and water molecules. The cave was found by the Industrias Peñoles mining company in 2000.

[glowseal]

Through the pines

[callmeanxietygirl]

Los cristales gigantes de la cueva de Naica...

EN MÉXICO,, SE DESCUBRIÓ UNA CUEVA SUBTERRÁNEA DE 26 MILLONES DE AÑOS.

En su interior habían unos cristales muy raros que desafían los conceptos naturales. Aquí te lo cuento

El Enigma de los Cristales Gigantes se centra en uno de los hallazgos naturales más asombrosos del mundo, situado en Naica, Chihuahua, México: La Cueva de los Cristales.

Esta caverna subterránea, descubierta en el año 2000 por mineros trabajando en la mina de Naica, es un espectáculo sobrenatural de cristales de selenita (una forma cristalina del mineral yeso) de proporciones colosales, algunos alcanzando hasta 12 metros de longitud y 4 metros de diámetro, y pesando aproximadamente 55 toneladas.

La formación de estos cristales es un fenómeno que despierta tanto asombro como interrogantes científicos. Durante miles de años, las condiciones únicas dentro de la cueva han sido el caldo de cultivo perfecto para el crecimiento de estos cristales.

La cueva se encuentra a una profundidad de 300 metros bajo la superficie de la Tierra, donde las temperaturas pueden alcanzar hasta 58 grados Celsius con una humedad relativa cercana al 100%. Estas condiciones extremas, aunque inhóspitas para los humanos, han sido ideales para la formación de los cristales.

La historia geológica de la cueva sugiere que hace aproximadamente 26 millones de años, la actividad volcánica en la región de Naica creó grandes reservorios de magma debajo de la superficie. Con el tiempo, este magma calentó las aguas subterráneas ricas en minerales, creando una solución saturada que comenzó a filtrarse a través de las fisuras y cavernas subterráneas.

En el caso de la Cueva de los Cristales, la solución rica en sulfato de calcio (yeso) se estabilizó en una temperatura constante de alrededor de 54 grados Celsius, un punto crítico para la formación de los cristales de selenita.

Durante cientos de miles de años, este equilibrio térmico permitió que los cristales crecieran a tamaños gigantescos. La clave del crecimiento excesivo de los cristales reside en la constancia de las condiciones ambientales en la cueva.

Sin variaciones significativas de temperatura y con una constante saturación de minerales, los cristales pudieron crecer de manera ininterrumpida, formando estas estructuras gigantescas.

El descubrimiento de la Cueva de los Cristales ha atraído la atención de geólogos, mineralogistas y aventureros de todo el mundo. Sin embargo, explorar la cueva es extremadamente peligroso debido a las altas temperaturas y la humedad.

Los investigadores deben usar trajes especiales con sistemas de refrigeración y oxígeno independiente para poder entrar a la cueva por periodos cortos de tiempo.

Además de su importancia científica, la Cueva de los Cristales es un recordatorio impresionante de los procesos geológicos que moldean nuestro planeta. A pesar de ser un entorno extremo y hostil, la cueva ha revelado una belleza y un misterio únicos que desafían nuestra comprensión del mundo natural.

El futuro de la Cueva de los Cristales es incierto. A medida que la minería en Naica continúa, el bombeo del agua que mantiene la cueva inundada podría detenerse, lo que potencialmente alteraría el delicado equilibrio que ha permitido el crecimiento de estos cristales. Existen esfuerzos y debates sobre cómo preservar este tesoro natural, equilibrando la necesidad de investigación científica con la conservación de este fenómeno único.

En resumen, la Cueva de los Cristales en Naica representa uno de los tesoros geológicos más impresionantes del mundo. Su descubrimiento ha abierto una ventana a procesos geológicos inusuales y ha desafiado nuestra comprensión sobre los límites del crecimiento mineral. A medida que la ciencia continúa explorando y comprendiendo este enigma, la Cueva de los Cristales permanece como un símbolo espectacular de la maravilla y el misterio que aún guarda nuestro planeta.

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[revessie]

Naica, The Crystal Palace next to Hell

I saw an interesting show last night that I just have to share with you readers and especially all of you crystal and jewelry lovers. It’s about a Crystal Mine in Mexico called Naica. Here are a few pictures and I’ll also post the video. And here is the video. Enjoy!

[the-cosmic-blogger]

William Solis's Master Post

William Solis, AKA Billy, Will, Sol, or Solis, is a completely revamped version of Bill Cipher. This revamp is called The Shape Eater Factor, or TSEF.

He was born into an aristocratic family of squares and circles. Despite him being an equilateral triangle, they made sure he got the best of care and treated him kindly, while everyone else save for Kryptos and Hectorgon (Karlos Naica and Hector von Gahn here) treated him extremely poorly. But one day, his dimension was flooded with shape eaters, and became apocalyptic. His family was the last to go, and he got his x-shaped scar and jacket torn trying to protect them. With a burst of power and strength he never had before, he eradicated every shape eater with one fell swoop, leaving him the last one left (?) in his realm. He has nightmares about this, to this day. All he had left of the realm were a tablet and the clothes on his back. Alone, he traverses other dimensions, helping people, and has low hopes that his people will be reborn.

His realm still stands, razed and grayed out completely, and he uses it as a sorta home base for whenever he's not traveling dimensions, living in the forest so he won't have to look at the utterly destroyed buildings.

Appearance

by me

by @sunnihope

Some Facts:

William's voice claim is canon Bill, but just imagine that it's softer, more gentle and sometimes stammering.

he's a sweetheart. A bit jittery and paranoid thanks to bullies and the incident that destroyed his livelihood, but a sweetie nonetheless, as he is a friend to all living things.

absolutely loves sweets, especially hot chocolate.

he has an especial soft spot for children

he doesn't like being unexpectedly touched, nor does he like his tail and horns being touched. (He gives children a slight exception.)

his tail behaves like an animal's, in that it wags when he's excited and curls inward when he's upset, among other things. It's even prehensile!

appreciates expected hugs and cuddles

sometimes the scar hurts, and he doesn’t know why.

when possessing someone, which isn’t often, their eyes turn a brilliant, haunting blue, like his eye.

he doesn’t like his occasional supernatural hunger (souls, flesh, blood). He’s taken to bringing pork around with him to sate it.

his eye becomes a full-on slit if he’s hungry or angry enough, the latter of which is extremely rare.

his extremely kind nature led him to develop powerful healing abilities, to the point that he can cure terminal and otherwise incurable diseases.

he has a stammer. He almost always did, but it got worse a while after the Shape Eater incident.

William doesn’t really sleep, and if he does drift off he can't sleep well because of nightmares, so his dark circle formed as a result of that.

unlike canon, he wasn’t trapped in a dream or nightmare realm, so he can physically exist in any dimension he hops into.

William despite being a triangle is also very intelligent, very observant, and has an excellent way with words, especially if his anxiety doesn't get in the way.

he was studying to be a governor before the dimension was flooded with Shape Eaters. He really wanted to change things.

his birthday doesn’t exist in his and other dimensional calendars. The Shape Eaters and the burst of power left little behind.

he actually isn’t the only survivor... he just thinks he is...

Family

William's family were very aristocratic, rivaling the higher ups. They were also very kind and happy people. But they and the higher ups (the powers that be), were often at odds because they wanted a change and the powers that be knew no other way for their society to be.

He is the third child out of seven, and all of them were fond of William because of how they were raised. Billy was often in charge of taking care of the younger and youngest with his older siblings' help when his parents went to work, since his parents thought he could learn a thing or two about caring for children.

Euclydian Society

Triangles are the lowest, only set to become infantry, slaves or homeless. They usually don't speak grammar properly, and are taken out of school or drop out before high school.

Squares and circles, William's family makeup, are higher up, despite squares having just one side more than a triangle. They get to be lawyers or priests in particular, but they're not exactly limited to these. In this dimension, it's also possible for squares and circles to birth a triangle, but not the other way around.

Stars are rare, and rectangles and pentagons are the same as circles, squares and rectangles. Other shapes also exist, of course.

Wiliam's family sought to change the society, almost always butting heads with the powers that be, who were often diamonds, but the powers that be knew no other way.

There are three planets. One for slaves and infantry, since no one wants to be associated with them. Only reason shapes go there is to hire a veteran or get a slave to do their bidding. Another belongs to the governors, the powers that be, because they're higher than everyone else. The last one is just shapes living together and doing their daily jobs and lessons and so on.

On each planet are warps, similar to the Warp Pads in Steven Universe, but slaves and infantry can't use them unless they're with someone who can. There's a magical signature embedded within every shape's frame, dictated by their family bloodlines, that either allows or disallows use. William still has the Solis signature even with his transformation into a demon, but for extra proof his family gifted him a tablet that also contains identification, since they knew the guards of each warp won't take kindly to a triangle having access.

The insignia on the back of his tablet is this:

It also pops up in energy readings in general. Every family has an insignia, and it's different for every single one.

Shape Eaters

The Shape Eaters are vile, mindless creatures like the Heartless, only caring about eating shapes and destruction. A realm that has even one in it is doomed. They aren’t really supposed to exist. But they do. Only those affected by the Shape Eater Factor can truly kill them, and they become light gray ashes when they die. 

If a Shape Eater contacts a shape without killing them, the shape gets these powerful abilities akin to a demon, based on their interests, and thus transform into a demon; they also get the ability to dimension-hop and basic abilities such as shields and deflection, possession, shapeshifting, etc.

Involvement in Gravity Falls

William Solis met Ford around the time canon Bill met with Ford, only not in a dream. The demon met Ford when the man was sleeping against a tree. He sensed that the guy was troubled with other issues since he looked peaceful in sleep, and waited beside him for him to wake up. Ford at first thought he was dreaming when he woke up, but Billy assured him that wasn’t the case. They talked, and Billy offered to help with anything Ford needed. And he did genuinely help—patching Stan’s and Ford’s relationship back up, helping Fiddleford and Stanford with their studies on weirdness, helping Fiddleford cope with the weirdness around, and eventually, after Ford expressed interest in seeing other dimensions, helped create a true Interdimensional Portal*, marking Ford and everyone involved a star in Oddology. The Pines and McGucket families flourished with this. Eventually, Ford began to think of Billy more as a fellow Pines than a Muse because of how close they became and all the issues Billy single-handedly fixed, and offered that he could come visit Gravity Falls at any time. 

As a result, the memory gun and the Blind Eye don’t exist, and the people of Gravity Falls are much more competent.

* The possibility of parallel selves touching causing the dimension to fizzle out doesn't exist here. If what PF said about it was even true.

Writings / Stories

AO3 Series

[psych0phily]

woaaah new psychophily drop real [not clickbait]?

Psst- check out my ko-fi for commissions

[kikihesterkamp]

Energetic, curious, but down on her luck engineer Evrim Durmaz has accepted that for reasons unbeknownst to her, she will never recive the "cure" that makes her normal, and will never fit in.

Until she meets Naica Bor, the kind though somewhat stoic one woman army of the rebels, who strives for revenge for being cured.

Another two characters from my New Adult Neuropunk dystopia Eine Heilung vom Anderssein ("A cure for being different")

[vaile-elenya]

that got me wondering... what would be the elvish equivalent of the name Karen?

Elf names got more complicated as parents strove to create new ones instead of handling the political whiplash of reusing an old one. So if you meet an elf called ‘silver-river-water-voice’ they’re pretty young, but if some guy says ‘hi I’m Tree’ you best believe that bitch is ancient.

[ghminerals]

Complex Selenite crystal from The Naica Mine of Chihuahua, Mexico. 6.75 inch across. https://goldenhourminerals.etsy.com/listing/1656673828

[boobookittenartblog]

Cave of the Crystals or Giant Crystal Cave is a cave connected to the Naica Mine at a depth of 300 metres (980 ft), in Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico... (Wikipedia)

[satishbaste53]

Philips Naica Chandelier

Premium crystal chandelier for sparkling lights to complement your home décor. Elegant titanium gold and matt black finish with premium crystals offer sparkling illumination.

[ballisticiansfolly]

[glowseal]

sometimes i choose the strangest oc voice claims