Maria Box

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PhD student at Northumbria University (UK), currently researching past climate in northern Mongolia. Generally excited by all speleothems great and small

a dehumidifier box that has partially frozen. water is accumulating on the hydrophilic beads in the top of the box rather than dripping through
a large wooden frame outdoors for vaporising brine
A sandstone megalith with deep vertical erosion grooves
Inside a cave, a caver uses ropes to climb a steep rock face between ice waterfalls.
A stalactite with small bones embedded in its side
Two halves of a small stalagmite that's been cut open. The top of the stalagmite is broken.
A building with many windows on the edge of a river. The windows are unlit. In their reflection on the rivers surface, the windows are glowing orange.
A grass-covered slope in a mountain valley with cracks running through it
A small helictite growing on bricks