Unfortunately on this page you won't get informations about a
wellness weekend or advices for a senceless beauty care, because
this was a bang-hard period of three days with Chianti and 32 C°
sulphurous warm water.
At
first you will ask yourself what thing is photographically shown on
the left? It is a calcite - aragonite marble (d = 18mm). If the
crystalline radial structured balls wouldn't get in rough touch in
the sinter basins, you would find thousands of crystallized
hedgehogs . Constantly taken around by natural water power or by
visitors the needles are not able to develope itself and so a
mineral time indicator with a ring appereance reminding to the cross
section of a tree is the result. From the outside inward the first
dark ring is enclosed by some brighter and it would be very
interesting to determine the average of the climate the last 8-12
years or if the water was extremely dirty ( may a forest burning or
a construction at the thermal bath). Probably the walls of the
sinter terraces indicate the same features .
It ist only a little
unchique sawing at this rare creation of nature!
Caused
by the cooling down of the sulfurous calziumcarbonate water the
precipitating product develops the creation of this marble. (the
distance of the source to the terraces amounts apprx.1000 m). The
different thickness of the rings are probably the result of the
changing temperatures
between
the summer and winter seasons . In winter the water is cooling down
faster and causes a higher precipitation (thick rings).
This place is really a masterpiece of nature and should be treated
respectfully!
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