Villa Luz Cave

Villa Luz Cave, Sunan Mutanen Espanya Cueva de Villa Luz ( lit. Cave of the Lighted Town), wanda kuma aka sani da Cueva del Azufre da Cueva de las Sardinas, wani kogo ne kusa da Tapijulapa a kudancin kasar Mexico ta Tabasco . Maɓuɓɓugan ruwan da ke cikin kogon suna da wadataccen sinadarin hydrogen sulfide, iskar gas mai ƙarfi mai daɗaɗɗen numfashi kuma tana wari kamar ruɓaɓɓen qwai. A cikin ruwa sulfide ne oxidized zuwa colloidal sulfur wanda ke ba da ruwa bayyanar madara, kuma yana haifar da sulfuric acid . Kogon yana da tsayin kimanin kilomita biyu kuma da farko an cire shi daga farar ƙasa da sulfuric acid a cikin ruwa. Hakanan ana amfani da sulfide na hydrogen ta hanyar ƙwayoyin cuta na chemoautotrophic, waɗanda ke zama tushen gidan yanar gizon abinci .

Kogon sanannen wurin yawon bude ido ne kuma mutane da yawa sun ziyarta, wani bangare saboda ana iya samunsa cikin sauki. An nuna shi a cikin jerin shirye-shiryen BBC Planet Earth, da abubuwan al'ajabi na tsarin hasken rana .

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 Similar caves where life partly or fully depends on chemosynthesis: Movile Cave in Romania, the first one identified, Ein-Nur Cave and Ayalon Cave (Israel), Frasassi Caves (Italy), Melissotrypa Cave (Elassona municipality, Greece), Tashan Cave (Iran), caves in the Sharo-Argun Valley in the Caucasus Mountains, Lower Kane Cave, Cesspool Cave (Wyoming and Alleghany County, VA, USA).Chiciudean, I., Russo, G., Bogdan, D.F. et al. "Competition-cooperation in the chemoautotrophic ecosystem of Movile Cave: first metagenomic approach on sediments." Environmental Microbiome 17, 44 (2022). Permanent . Re-accessed 23 March 2024.

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