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Gold-colored secondary minerals on the walls and in cracks of Four Windows Cave in El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico (A, B) and in Thurston Lava Tube, in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park (C). Images courtesy of Kenneth Ingham; used with permission. Color images available online at www.liebertonline.com/ast
