stalagmite
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Icicles, stalactites, stalagmites , lava tubes, and some crystals may be considered cylindrical, but the rest of the nonbiotic Universe has other shapes.
a mound or tapering column rising from the floor of a cave, formed of calcium salts deposited by dripping water and often uniting with a stalactite.
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The cave is millions of years old and there are many 'stalagmites' and stalactites that still drip.
At Lehman Caves, sign up early for one of the guided tours through an otherworldly half mile of stalactites, 'stalagmites' , and twisting, straw-shaped helictites.
It's worth walking the wooden track among the stalactites and 'stalagmites' deep inside the hill.
Only the tops of a few mountains were left above water, and some of these became the Balearic Islands, with limestone caves full of 'stalagmites' and stalactites.
Meanwhile, souvenir-snatching tourists add to the damage, breaking limestone 'stalagmites' and stalactites from cave floors and ceilings.
The cave has some fantastic formations of great geological interest - stalactites, 'stalagmites' , stalactones, cave pearls, ‘cave milk’.
The growth rate of stalactites and 'stalagmites' in many caves today is of course quite slow.
Shortly after a chamber with a small shaft off to the left, you need to slide past an impressive 'stalagmitic' boss.
Water dripped onto the cave floor from hanging purple stalactites, emerald 'stalagmites' rose from the floor and everywhere evidence of supernatural beauty lingered.
Normally the ground color is white but almost invariably veined by an unequal distribution of the coloring, or by the subsequent infiltration of metallic oxides during its 'stalagmitic' formation - i.e. stalagmites and stalactites.
There are fine straw stalactites, tall and graceful columns and numerous 'stalagmites' sprouting up from the floor, with the splendid scene all carefully illuminated.
I vaguely make out outlines of 'stalagmites' and stalactites connecting floor to ceiling, but little else.
Stalactites and 'stalagmites' connect floor to ceiling.
Icicles, stalactites, 'stalagmites' , lava tubes, and some crystals may be considered cylindrical, but the rest of the nonbiotic Universe has other shapes.
The composition of stalactites and 'stalagmites' depends on the salts present in the water that flows over them which, in turn, depends on the types of rocks over which the water previously passed.
He has also shown through his research that 'stalagmites' in caves do not require a long time to form.
There were numerous pools of boiling lava, and stalactites and 'stalagmites' joined to form crude natural columns.
There were rudimentary stalactites and 'stalagmites' protruding from ceiling and floor, like the teeth of some gargantuan creature's mouth.
In addition to wild orchids at every turn, the island has some of the largest coastal limestone caverns in the South Pacific, with stalactites and 'stalagmites' forming monster jaws you can walk between.
Speleothems (stalactites, 'stalagmites' , flowstone) usually display a layered or banded structure in cross section, not unlike growth rings in a tree.
Rain and sea spray shaped this limestone into cliffs and tunnelled into the rock, creating numerous caves in which calcium deposits formed surprisingly shaped stalactites and 'stalagmites' .
This leads past a brown 'stalagmitic' flow on the right, to an iron ladder which descends to the top of East Slope in the Main Chamber.
Originally formed by a subterranean stream, then flooded by the sea, it is a rare opportunity to dive in salt water among stalactites and 'stalagmites' .
The passage then passes under a gothic arch draped with 'stalagmitic' curtains, to the start of a traverse.
The room following was swathed in green velvet, evoking a moss-covered cavern complete with 'stalagmitic' and stalactitic projections and sand underfoot.
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