stalagmites

Rock structures that grow up from the floors of caves as water drips down and deposits minerals . ( Compare stalactites .)

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Stalagmites grow very slowly.

For there would be no ice here; the drippings of the snowsheds, with their accompanying stalactites and stalagmites, were absent.

From the roof hung fantastic stalactites and from the floor stalagmites equally fantastic shot up to meet them.

It is composed of tufa, carbonate of lime, and was formed in the same manner as stalactites and stalagmites are formed.

Just as we touched the snow a spring bubbled from the rocks at our left, spurting its water over stalagmites of ice.

The rock is white limestone, in which are chambers and passage-ways, stalactites and stalagmites innumerable.

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