Moon milk
Moon milk (lat. Lac Lunae ) is the name for a special type of calcite deposit . The term is based on a historical description of the Mondmilchloch cave on Pilatus from the year 1555. Often the name Bergmilch or Montmilch ( Lac Montanum ), sometimes also Nix (compare Nixhöhle ), is used incorrectly in German . The moon milk also gives its name to the moon milk cave near Lenningen-Gutenberg.
Moon milk is usually very white to milky. In contrast to hard sinter or stalactite , it is soft and porous. In rare cases, moon milk is also available in liquid form. This is how the sensational discovery of a moon milk river was made in the Basque Country. In the Alpstein (Eastern Switzerland), especially in the Kamor caves , moon milk was collected in the 19th century and used as a remedy for people and cattle.
literature
- Hubert Trimmel (general editor): Speleological specialist dictionary. Files of the 3rd International Congress of Speleology (Vienna-Obertraun-Salzburg 1961) Vol. C, Association of Austrian Speleologists, Regional Association for Speleology in Vienna and Lower Austria, Vienna 1965
- Hubert Trimmel: Speleology. Vieweg Verlag, Braunschweig 1968
- Alfred Bögli : Karst hydrography and physical speleology. Springer Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York 1978, ISBN 3-540-09015-0 , ISBN 0-387-09015-0
- Alfred Bögli, June C. Schmid (Transl.): Karst hydrology and physical speleology. Springer Verlag, New York-Berlin-Heidelberg 1980, ISBN 3-540-10098-9 , ISBN 0-387-10098-9
- Hans Fischer: Etymology of moon milk or moon milk hole. In: Journal of the German Geological Society. / 139/1988. German Geological Society , Hanover, pp. 155–159
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt: The Secret of the Moon Milk River , article from February 1, 2005, accessed on November 13, 2017
