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Huge “impossible” crystals in Denmark were eventually declared by scientists – AlKhaleej Today

Huge “impossible” crystals in Denmark were eventually declared by scientists

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Geological puzzles are pretty good. How did it manage to form large numbers of giant glendonite crystals under the global greenhouse conditions of the early Eocene (56-48 million years ago)? These rare calcium carbonate crystals, whose formation requires temperatures below 4 degrees Celsius, consist of the mineral Ikaite and occur in the tens of millions on the Danish islands of Fur and Mors. They were dated 56-54 million years ago.
Why we find Glendonite from a hot period with temperatures ab…

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