This book contains text and numerous color photos, including
18 large ones, some occupying two full pages. Cave map. From the back cover:
"A forest of crystals, the biggest ones on the planet. An unreal world, beyond imagination, beyond dream.
A cave with a temperature of 50°C and 100% humidity; an infernal place, where man, without protection,
can survive just a few minutes.
"A wonder of nature discovered by chance, fragile and mysterious; something we risk to lose at any time.
And that will soon turn inaccessible again, hidden in the heart of the earth.
"Naica's Cave of the Crystals is a small window into the immense geological time; a window man can now open thanks
to a new, exclulsive technology. A high risk 'astronautics' exploration, in order to understrand,
study, document, and save. Before it becomes too late."
Table of Contents
| 11 |
The Naica Mine |
| 15 |
The Discovery of the Naica Macro-Geodes |
| 21 |
The Association La Venta in Cristales |
| 22 |
The Hostile Environment and the Techniques Used |
27 |
The Topographic Survey |
33 |
Climatic Research |
35 |
Mineralogical Research |
37 |
The Disappearance of Cristales |
