Writing 1 I begin my hike in comfortable clothes, a camelbak, flashlight and my ticket to view the caves. The first thing I see is the large rockslide above the visitor’s center. The rockslide is called talus slop. A talus slope describes a type of rockslide that is a loose debris piles. Talus slopes have mild to moderate rockslides as rocks slide down the pile. I was surprised when one such rock hit my head dead center. Facing the American Fork Canyon in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, USA I see
of secondary mineral deposits (i.e. decoration). Taking a step forward, Hill and Forti (1985) divided speleothems into four categories: dripstone (e.g. stalactites, stalagmites, ‘curtains’), flowstone (e.g. stone waterfalls), pore deposits (e.g. helictites) and pool deposits (e.g. ‘cave pearls’). Overall, all types of speleothems are formed by water saturated with dissolved calcite (CaCO3). As it is already mentioned, rainwater passes through the soil, absorbs carbon dioxide, and becomes slightly