Cave Scarisoara or Glacier Scarisoara adaposteate largest underground glacier in Romania. Hence it comes from the glacier's name comes from the community and Scarisoara Scarisoara located 16 km below, to which the administrative time when he was baptized. Now belongs to the commune Garda de Sus, Alba county.
Entry into Glacier Scarisoara is through an impressive venture, whose mouth, with a diameter of 60m is open forest shelf edge. A narrow path carved into the rock and some metal stairs anchored walls facilitate lowering the 48 m depth measure as AVEN. On the bottom of the whole year is kept in a thick layer of snow. Here enters the Hall with an impressive depth being 24 m wide portal and 17 m height.
Glacier in Zgurasti-In this cave was reported by R. Jeannel and Racovita EG (1929) an interesting weather phenomenon, fog formation in the light beam entering the cave entrance at noon. The authors assume that it is a process of condensation of water around ions in training, that a similar process in Wilson chambers. Another interesting element is the presence of muscles on the floor of the room. It is Thamnium alopecurum L. and Oxyrrhynchium praelongum (Hedw.) forms that grow under water, indicating that such high growth level of the lake.
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