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Stalagmite

noun
1.
A cylinder of calcium carbonate projecting upward from the floor of a limestone cave.





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"Stalagmite" Quotes from Famous Books



... tall columns sprang complete from floor to roof, while incipient columns were growing to meet each other, upwards and downwards. The water which trickles from the stalactite, after having in part yielded up its carbonate of lime, falls upon the floor vertically underneath, and there builds the stalagmite. Consequently, the pillars grow from above and below simultaneously, along the same vertical. It is easy to distinguish the stalagmitic from the stalactitic portion of the pillars. The former is always divided into short segments ...
— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall
... and if it did not scare him, he would see by the glimmer of his solitary candle the gleam of a stream rushing madly along, then plunging deeper into the earth, to reappear nobody knows where. This cavern offers little of the beauty of stalactite and stalagmite; but the roof in many places has a very curious and fantastic appearance, derived from layers of flints embedded in the solid limestone, and exposed to view by the disintegration of the rock or the washing action of water. They can be best likened ...
— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker


Words linked to "Stalagmite" :   dripstone, cylinder, cave


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