Espeleotemes i minerals de les coves de les illes Balears
Journal: LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas)
Year: 2011

&amp;#091;eng&amp;#093; Caves in the Balearics are renowned by its remarkable scenic values due to the great variety and abundance of carbonate speleothems, whose mineralogy is mainly composed by calcite being aragonite relegated to a second place. Other minerals are also represented but in a very minority way, such as gypsum. This situation is due to the monotonous carbonate lithology that characterizes the Balearics geology. The mineral monotony is counterweighted by the utmost morphological d