Adamkó Péter - Dénes György - Leél-Őssy Szabolcs: The Caves of Buda - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1992)

Gypsum knifes at the beginning of the Ice Cream Corridor

differs in that its chambers are unusually large: halls 30, 40 and even 70 m in length and passages 10 to 20 m in height are common. Just about everywhere the walls are covered with tremendous amounts of “peastone”, aragonite crystal needles and sparkling blankets of gypsum. It is justly called crystal cave. Large crystals of barite and calcite can also be found at many locations as well as various combinations of all these minerals. Different crystals appear in a great variety of ways. Gypsum occurs as a glittering encrustment consisting of a myriad of tiny crystals (Ice Cream Hall), as a cluster of crystals 50-100 cm in diameter (Kinizsi Station, Sándor Láng Chamber), as thin, feather-grass-like fibres often 50-90 cm in length (Shell Branch), or as individual crystals with a length of 1-2 cm (Mourning Chamber).

The multitude of snow-white “peastones” (Ice Cream <1 The Temple of Ha tu re. Aragonite crystals