Explore a lesser-known caver's paradise in this Oklahoma state park where you can see rare, natural gypsum with a guided tour ...

Gypsum caves, while rare, are not unheard of, even in the United States. For example, South Dakota's dazzling Jewel Cave National Monument is rich in gypsum crystals .

Gypsum Cave was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. “It is cool that it’s both a paleontology site and an archaeology site,” Justin DeMaio, ...

The Gypsum Cave will fall under the property apart of the efforts underway to make The Great Unconformity and nearby land a national monument on Thursday, May 4, 2023, in Las Vegas.

Scientists have discovered a new shrimp-like species in a gypsum cave in southeastern New Mexico, only a few dozen miles from the famous caves at Carlsbad Caverns National Park.

Alabaster Caverns is the largest natural gypsum cave in the world open to the public. Many visitors don't realize you can also spend the night in a smaller cave nearby. Friday, June 21st 2019, 6:58 pm ...

The cave contains some of the largest natural crystals ever found: translucent gypsum beams measuring up to 36 feet (11 meters) long and weighing up to 55 tons.

The Cave of Crystals in Chihuahua, Mexico, is buried almost 1,000 feet (300 meters) beneath Earth's surface and contains giant gypsum crystal beams that are up to 37 feet (11 m) long.

Cahill, who described himself as an avid caver, took almost every precaution he could think of when he entered the 4.5-mile gypsum cave near Carlsbad Caverns National Park at about 5 p.m. the ...

Gypsum crystals began to form when the temperature of the cave’s water reached around 58°C (136°F), and the slowly dissolving anhydrite deposits infused the water with just enough calcium and ...